Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Zimbardo

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

Philip Zimbardo

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

Laini Taylor

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Johnny Depp

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

John Stuart Mill

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

John Stuart Mill

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Ray

That which is evil is soon learned.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.

James Joyce

Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

James Russell Lowell

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

James Russell Lowell

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

James Russell Lowell

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

Laurence Sterne

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

Kyle MacLachlan

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

Friedrich Schiller

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

George Gilder

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

Lucan

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Luc de Clapiers

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

Luc de Clapiers

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Total evil. dang, his principal had been right all along... he really was demonspawn.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something like tolerance and contort it into a new form of intolerance and conformity. The way humanity can justify any kind of evil.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Now what other evil powers do you have that I should know about?” – Abigail “I can roll my tongue.” – Sundown “I’m serious, Jess.” – Abigail “So am I. Not everyone can do it. It’s a genetic thing, you know.” – Sundown

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the gods never meant to be flossed and used things that would be toxic to most living organisms. All to sanitize my body for your chewing pleasure.

Terry Pratchett

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.

Nick Clooney

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

N. T. Wright

The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death.

Morris Raphael Cohen

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

John Winthrop

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.

John Woo

I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

John Wycliffe

I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.

John Ruskin

Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.