Famous Quotes & Sayings

Socrates

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

Michelle Rodriguez

I heard that the guy who invented the Jehovah's Witnesses was a Mason.That kind of turned me off, because when something's mysterious, all you can do is be scared of it. "He's a Mason? Ugh. It must be evil!" I didn't know much about it, so I was scared. Now I actually admire those guys - they're pretty talented. They founded a lot of the world that we look at today.

Michael Moore

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

He’s ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

John Parsons

Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All things are subject to abuse, all things are susceptible to beneficial use. And balance does not consist in denial, or excess of indulgence.

John Patrick Shanley

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

John Owen

Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

John Owen

It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

John Milton

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

John Milton

Evil, be thou my good.

John Milton

That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

John Milton

Evil on itself shall back recoil.

Norman Angell

The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others.

Nnedi Okorafor

Use your powers for good instead of evil

Mike Tyson

To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless.

Miguel de Cervantes

Where there's music there can be no evil.

Miguel de Cervantes

Seek for good, but expect evil.

Miguel de Cervantes

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.

Miguel de Cervantes

Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Neil Kinnock

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

Neil Gaiman

You're sick. Sick and evil and weird.

Neil Gaiman

I do not permit affection, or lack thereof, to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected; the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil, as a caution.

John Piper

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.

John Newton

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

John Newton

I am not what I ought to be. Ah! How imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be. I abhor what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good. I am not what I hope to be. Soon, soon, I shall put off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection. Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was—a slave to sin and Satan. And I can heartily join with the apostle, and acknowledge, ‘By the grace of God, I am what I am.’

John Ruskin

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

John Steinbeck

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

John Steinbeck

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.

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.