Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Gorbachev

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

Nadine Gordimer

You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

Miyamoto Musashi

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

Publilius Syrus

We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.

Publilius Syrus

What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?

Publilius Syrus

An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.

Publilius Syrus

The evil you do to others you may expect in return.

Publilius Syrus

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

Neil Young

Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.

Neil Young

I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.

Neil Young

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.

Mike Myers

Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

Mike Myers

Oh, you know, driving around, coming to a stop sign and an entire family, from 8 to 80, will be looking at me with that Dr. Evil look - pinkie on the mouth.

Mike Pence

Weakness arouses evil. The American people know this.

Joe Meno

An act of evil is the death of wonder

Joe Meno

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Joe Dante

I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?

Jodi Picoult

There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.

Oliver Ellsworth

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

Margaret Atwood

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

Margaret Atwood

Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Kelly Hu

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.

Margaret Thatcher

Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.

Margaret Deland

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

Mark Twain

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

Larry Wall

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

Paul Johnson

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.