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People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all. ↗

— Joy Page

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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. ↗

— Jean Paul

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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. ↗

— Petrarch

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Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. ↗

— John Cheever

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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

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That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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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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