Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon B. Hinckley

Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

Herbert Spencer

Evil perpetually tends to disappear.

Herbert Spencer

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

Herman Melville

Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

Herman Melville

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

Herman Melville

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

Herman Melville

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

Henry David Thoreau

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Henry David Thoreau

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

By doing good we become good.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Jerry Garcia

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

Jeremy Bentham

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Jean de La Fontaine

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Jerry Seinfeld

Celebrity is no different from any other energy. It's a force for good or evil. It's no different from money. It's power.

Jens Stoltenberg

Evil can kill a person, but never conquer a nation.

Jennifer Lopez

I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I want.

Jean Chretien

It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.

James Carafano

It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.

Christopher Hitchens

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

Gary Zukav

Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

Fulton J. Sheen

A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

Fulton J. Sheen

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Frantz Fanon

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

Franz Grillparzer

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

Frank Zappa

The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.

Jeanette Winterson

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.