Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Patrick Rothfuss

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

Leon Trotsky

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

Larry Wall

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

Paul Johnson

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

Paul Johnson

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Patricia Velasquez

I also feel that if you were evil, then next time around you would be very good.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Hutton Gibson

Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.

Gregory Maguire

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Gregory Maguire

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

J. K. Rowling

Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach! Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it.

More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.

Julia Ward Howe

The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.

Keith Urban

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

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.

Shana Alexander

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground ...

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

Sholem Asch

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.

Seth Grahame-Smith

The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.

Ravi Zacharias

Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe.

Ravi Zacharias

Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.

Tom Hiddleston

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

Tom DeLay

These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.

Simon Winchester

Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.

Sinclair Lewis

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.

Socrates

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

Socrates

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Socrates

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

Socrates

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil