Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joni Mitchell

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]

Joel C. Rosenberg

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous

Joel C. Rosenberg

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

Joe Mantegna

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

Joanne Harris

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Jo Nesbo

A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Mahatma Gandhi

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

James St. James

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

James Stewart

The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.

James Madison

The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.

James Madison

If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.

Norman Vincent Peale

No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.

Emile Zola

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

Ellen Key

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

Eric Schmidt

One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition.

Epictetus

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

Epicurus

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Epicurus

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

Epicurus

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

Epicurus

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

Epictetus

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

Epictetus

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Epictetus

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Emanuel Swedenborg

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.

Ellis Peters

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evil is only good perverted.

Henri Nouwen

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

Henri Nouwen

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

Hesiod

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

Hesiod

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.