Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henning Mankell

The evil always comes from details.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Helen Keller

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

Cassandra Clare

They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes

Gouverneur Morris

He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt.

Gore Vidal

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

James Boswell

Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.

J. R. R. Tolkien

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.

J. R. R. Tolkien

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

Isaac Asimov

All evil is good become cancerous.

Iris Chang

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

Immanuel Kant

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

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.

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.