Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Jerry Bridges

Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will

Giacomo Leopardi

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

Giacomo Casanova

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

Francis Schaeffer

God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.

Horace

Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

Homer

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

Homer

And would'st thou evil for his good repay?

Homer

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.

Honore de Balzac

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

Honore de Balzac

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

Honore de Balzac

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

James Boswell

Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.

J. R. R. Tolkien

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.

J. R. R. Tolkien

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

Isaac Asimov

All evil is good become cancerous.

Iris Chang

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

Immanuel Kant

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Morihei Ueshiba

Aikido is the principle of non-resistance. Because it is non-resistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious thoughts are instantly vanquished. Aikido is invincible because it contends with nothing.

Milan Kundera

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.

Joseph Addison

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

Joseph Addison

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.