Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannah More

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.

Hannah More

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.

Greg Gutfeld

If you're a Republican and rich, that's evil. But if you're a Democrat and rich, that's great.

Harry Bridges

I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.

Jack L. Chalker

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

It is our obligation to free them from the clutches of evil, evil that has no boundaries,

Ralph Fiennes

They made his exterior very simple so you can see the evil inside,

Jack Abramoff

For a guy who did all these evil things ... it's pretty amazing, considering I didn't know anyone.

Lois Lowry

Evil can do anything, for a price.

Lloyd Alexander

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

Lloyd Alexander

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Manu Bennett

To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.

Lytton Strachey

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Louise Bogan

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Louisa May Alcott

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

John Fogerty

You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

John Flavel

Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20).

John Fowles

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Jonathan Haidt

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

Jonah Goldberg

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

Joyce Carol Oates

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

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.

Ovid

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

P. C. Cast

No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil

Percy Bysshe Shelley

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

Meher Baba

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

Pope Benedict XVI

The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good.

Pope Benedict XVI

A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia.

Pope Benedict XVI

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

Pope John Paul II

There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.

Pierre Corneille

All evils are equal when they are extreme.