Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Caviezel

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

Jeremy Taylor

Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.

Jeremy Taylor

The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.

Jeremy Taylor

since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

Jeff Ament

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

Jeaniene Frost

I love the Underworld movies because the vampires arent automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.

Jean-Paul Sartre

To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.

Georges Bataille

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

George Whitefield

If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!

Jefferson Davis

Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.

Jean Racine

Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.

Jean Racine

The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.

Eminem

Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people

Eminem

So many lives I touch, so much anger.

Eminem

Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil

Elvis Costello

I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

Jason Stearns

As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.

Jasper Fforde

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

Hippocrates

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil....

Herbert Marcuse

The closed language does not demonstrate and explain it communicates decision, dictum, command. Where it defines, the definition becomes "separation of good from evil;" it establishes unquestionable

Evelyn Waugh

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

Eugene Ionesco

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

Ernest Hemingway

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

Ernest Hemingway

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

Etty Hillesum

We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.

Erwin W. Lutzer

If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

Grover Cleveland

At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.

Gregory Maguire

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

Homer

And empty words are evil.

Howard Zinn

I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.

Horace

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?