Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Johnson

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Patricia Velasquez

I also feel that if you were evil, then next time around you would be very good.

Lydia M. Child

It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

Lucretius

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]

Lucretius

How many evils have flowed from religion.

Lucretius

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

Only religion can lead to such evil.

Louis Farrakhan

Every time we have had a presidential election where there is "White or Black," you always have to choose between the lesser of two evils, so you either vote for "Satan" or the "Devil," and you catch hell with either one.

Mary Baker Eddy

Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.

Marquis de Sade

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

Mary MacLane

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings…

Mary McCarthy

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

Marvin Gaye

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Pat Robertson

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

Pat Robertson

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

Ozzy Osbourne

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.

Ozzy Osbourne

Black illusion is all I ever see.

Ovid

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

Ovid

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

Ovid

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

Mary Wollstonecraft

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Marshall McLuhan

Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

Marshall McLuhan

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Michel de Montaigne

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

Michel de Montaigne

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

Michel de Montaigne

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

Michel de Montaigne

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Michel de Montaigne

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

Michael Novak

Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will help us. Trust Him.

Mark Twain

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.