Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carlin

With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.

Garry Winogrand

The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.

George Eliot

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Fede Alvarez

Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me.

Fede Alvarez

There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.

Fanny Burney

Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.

Ezra Taft Benson

It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness

Eve Ensler

I am not saying people shouldn't be held accountable for terrible acts. But holding people in prisons does not necessarily make them responsible or accountable. It makes them bad. It makes them evil. It puts an end to any process of transformation. It hardens them spiritually and psychologically.

Euripides

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

Euripides

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Euripides

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

Euripides

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

Only a madman would give good for evil

Francesco Guicciardini

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

Francis Bacon

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Francis Bacon

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

Jean de La Fontaine

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

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?

Hannah Arendt

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

Hannah Arendt

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

Hannah Arendt

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

Hannah Arendt

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!