Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Key

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

Eric Schmidt

One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition.

Epictetus

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

Epicurus

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Epicurus

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

Epicurus

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

Epicurus

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

Epictetus

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

Epictetus

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Epictetus

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Emanuel Swedenborg

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.

Ellis Peters

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evil is only good perverted.

Henri Nouwen

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

Henri Nouwen

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

Hesiod

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

Hesiod

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Hesiod

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Hesiod

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

Heinrich Heine

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Heinrich Heine

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

Heraclitus

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]

Joel C. Rosenberg

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous

Joel C. Rosenberg

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

Joe Mantegna

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.