Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sinclair Lewis

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.

Socrates

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

Socrates

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Socrates

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

Socrates

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

Socrates

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

Michelle Rodriguez

I heard that the guy who invented the Jehovah's Witnesses was a Mason.That kind of turned me off, because when something's mysterious, all you can do is be scared of it. "He's a Mason? Ugh. It must be evil!" I didn't know much about it, so I was scared. Now I actually admire those guys - they're pretty talented. They founded a lot of the world that we look at today.

Michael Moore

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

He’s ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader)

Theodore Dreiser

Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the reaction.

Theodor Adorno

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Theodor Adorno

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

Melissa Etheridge

Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.

Ravi Zacharias

Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.

Ravi Zacharias

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

Ray Bradbury

Good to evil seems evil

Ray Bradbury

Evil has only the power we give it.

Eric Hoffer

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

Enoch Powell

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

James F. Cooper

There are evils worse than death,

James Comey

In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

James Chanos

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.

James Anthony Froude

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Jacopo Sannazaro

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

Jacque Fresco

It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

Jacque Fresco

Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.

Patricia Briggs

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?

Patricia Briggs

Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.

Patricia Briggs

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

Patricia Briggs

Evil must always be fought.

Plautus

The evil that we know is best.

Plautus

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]