Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mikhail Bulgakov

You pronounced your words as if you don’t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?

Mikhail Bulgakov

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

Mark Bittman

The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be

Mikhail Bakunin

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

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.

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

Leonardo da Vinci

It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.