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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil. ↗

— Basil Hume

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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

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This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good. ↗

— Howard Dean

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I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

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Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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