Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurell K. Hamilton

Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?

Laurell K. Hamilton

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

Lars von Trier

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

L. J. Smith

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace

Karl Barth

Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

Julius Nyerere

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

Ovadia Yosef

It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. [...] The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

Kami Garcia

Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan.

Kami Garcia

Power is neither good nor evil.

Joyce Meyer

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Paul Krugman

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.

John Piper

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

Martin O'Malley

We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.

Martin Luther

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

Martin Luther

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Martin Luther

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

Martin Luther

Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.

Nick Cave

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

If there's a good side of Islam, at the end of the day it serves evil.

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.

Pat Benatar

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

Joseph Stalin

Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

Joseph Brodsky

After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

Joseph Brodsky

Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating ...