Defeat Quote by William Wordsworth

The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at…

— Plato

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in…

— Anthony Trollope

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

— Samuel Johnson

The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once…

— Helen Fielding

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

— Denis Diderot

Good always triumphs over evil in the end, people who follow the path of goodness generally succeed.

— Anonymous

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other…

— Eric Ambler

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to…

— Eric Hoffer

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

— James Tiptree Jr

“Higher good is like water: the good in water benefits all, and does so without contention. It rests where people dislike to be, so…

— Laozi Dao De Jing

The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral…

— Alexander McCall Smith

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are…

— Kurt Vonnegut