Every language has a word expressing good in the sense of "having the right or desirable quality" (ἀρετή) and bad in the sense "undesirable". A sense of moral judgement and a distinction "right and wrong, good and bad" are cultural universals.
GOOD
-Being positive or desirable in nature
-Having the qualities that are desirable or distinguishing in a particular thing
-Serving the desired purpose or end
-Of high quality
-Worthy of respect
-Beneficial to health
-Of moral excellence; upright
-Benevolent; kind
-Well-behaved; obedient
-Socially correct; proper
-morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious
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“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
Oscar Wilde
“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.”
Albert Einstein
''Be good and you will be lonesome''
“It is very wearing to be good”
Mark Twain
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
“All good things are wild, and free.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”
William Shakespeare
-It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Aristotle
“It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good”
Greek proverb.
'There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.'
Chinese Proverb
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:22)”
EVIL
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l) Evil (also called badness or egregiousness) is the violation of some moral code.
Evil is usually seen as the opposite of good.
The Bible defines evil as the condition of being alone (the "not good" of Gen. 2:18). In this sense, evil may be seen as that which goes against, or is outside of society, both in terms of values and actions.
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Even Martin Luther allowed that there are cases where a little evil is a positive good. He wrote, "Seek out the society of your boon companions, drink, play, talk bawdy, and amuse yourself. One must sometimes commit a sin out of hate and contempt for the Devil, so as not to give him the chance to make one scrupulous over mere nothings... ."
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In certain schools of political philosophy, leaders are encouraged to be indifferent to good or evil, taking actions based solely on practicality; this approach to politics was put forth by Niccolò Machiavelli, a 16th-century Florentine writer who advised politicians "...it is far safer to be feared than loved."
Machiavelli wrote: "...there will be traits considered good that, if followed, will lead to ruin, while other traits, considered vices which if practiced achieve security and well being for the Prince."
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According the general teachings of the Buddha, "evil" means "harmful" and refers to 1) the three selfish emotions—desire, hate and delusion; and 2) to their expression in physical and verbal actions.
See "ten unvirtuous actions in Buddhism". Specifically, "evil" means whatever harms or obstructs the causes for happiness in this life, a better rebirth, liberation from samsara, and the true and complete enlightenment of a buddha (samyaksambodhi).
Ignorance is defined as the root of all evil.
“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.”
Mae West
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
Martin Luther King
“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”
Leonardo da Vinci
-The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
-There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha
“The sun also shines on the wicked”
Seneca
“Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party”
Oscar Wilde
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance”Socrates
“Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.”
Socrates
“War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil”
George Orwell
“The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men”
-No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
-Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato
-No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Thedore Roosevelt
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao Tzu
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo Machiavelli
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin
“People who say that money is the root of all evil don't have any”
Anon
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
Michelangelo
adj. e·vil·er, e·vil·est
1. Morally bad or wrong; wicked: an evil tyrant.
2. Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful: the evil effects of a poor diet.
3. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous: evil omens.
4. Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous: an evil reputation.
5. Characterized by anger or spite; malicious: an evil temper.
n.
1. The quality of being morally bad or wrong; wickedness.
2. That which causes harm, misfortune, or destruction: a leader's power to do both good and evil.
3. An evil force, power, or personification.
4. Something that is a cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction: the social evils of poverty and injustice.
adv. Archaic
In an evil manner.
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