Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ravi Zacharias

Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.

Ravi Zacharias

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

Ray Bradbury

Good to evil seems evil

Ray Bradbury

Evil has only the power we give it.

Eric Hoffer

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

Enoch Powell

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

James F. Cooper

There are evils worse than death,

James Comey

In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

James Chanos

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.

James Anthony Froude

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Jacopo Sannazaro

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

Jacque Fresco

It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

Jacque Fresco

Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.

Patricia Briggs

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?

Patricia Briggs

Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.

Patricia Briggs

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

Patricia Briggs

Evil must always be fought.

Plautus

The evil that we know is best.

Plautus

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

Plautus

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]

Plautus

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]

Plautus

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.

Plato

To do wrong is the greatest of evils.

Plato

All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

Plato

When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

Plato

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

Plato

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

Plato

There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

Plato

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Plato

Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

Plato

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Philip Zimbardo

Heroism is the antidote to evil.