“The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University. When we think about someone having two sides, we usually think about them being both good and evil. Why the same world is different for different people? “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3402, Delphi Classics, Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. Eric Hoffer (1996). Good and Evil as Flexible Most of us lie somewhere between the extremes of Gandhi and Hitler on the spectrum of human behavior. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment. In other words, you become neutral like neutron and become useless for the self and the society.”, Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin. Some are not. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories. Political leaders are clever and they destroy peace by inventing logic that creates hatred. We all have two sides, although maybe we don’t notice it much because we only have a little evil side. “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin. Lord Buddha puts it in a beautifully simple way in Dhammapada > Think not lightly of evil, saying, "It will not come to me." If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. ", Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love. If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human? They hated Christians. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 356, 1993. Here is how the story goes: An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Even in war, the logic put forward by both the sides are totally contradictory, and both the sides feel that they are right.”, “Every faith has logic even though people after developing faith forget the logic behind the faith. To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it. One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. Even God seems to be divided--God Himself and His counterpart—the Devil.”, “Scriptures exhorted men to shun evil and become good—which seems to be an impossible task—since as soon as we try to add goodness in us, evil too gets added in us without our effort—almost automatically.”, “The key to a good life is to balance the good and evil rather than trying to get rid of all evils because if you get rid of all your evils, you would also lose all your desire and ability to do good. To know the difference between good and evil, you need to have been through good and evil, therefor be good and evil. “The Radical King”, p.39, Beacon Press, Ronald Reagan (2004). When I see a friend acting differently, the first thing I think about is that maybe they are not in a good mood. No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. Because u look magically delicious. It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.