Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Sontag

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Joseph Joubert

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

Konrad Lorenz

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value

Kenneth Anger

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

Kenneth Anger

Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.

Ramakrishna

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

Ramana Maharshi

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

Ralph Fiennes

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

Gilbert Parker

He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.

Orson Scott Card

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

Sue Townsend

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? / So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

The spectacle is secondary, ... What I really like about it is there's a friction between good and evil.

Ryan Key

I've always written about 'My girlfriend did this and here's how I feel about it,' or 'I had a fight with this person. None of these songs are about those things. I pushed a lot of personal limits, and Holly Wood helps navigate through the themes of love and evil that are on this album.

Richard Dawkins

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

Richard Dawkins

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Richard Whately

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

Richard Whately

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Richelle Mead

Never thought my biggest cheerleader would be someone who thought I was evil and unnatural.

Richelle Mead

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina

Tryon Edwards

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

Rick Riordan

Genius does not excuse evil.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Rick Warren

The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped.

Rick Riordan

I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.

Paramahansa Yogananda

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

Ovid

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.