Famous Quotes & Sayings

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Philip Sidney

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

Philip James Bailey

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Philip James Bailey

Evil then results from imperfection.

Philip James Bailey

Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.

Penn Jillette

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

Paulo Coelho

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.

Meat Loaf

Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.

Max Muller

When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

Max Muller

The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

Max Lucado

God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it any more than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

Matthew Scully

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

Maurice Sendak

You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.

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.

John Henry Newman

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

John Henry Newman

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

John Hagee

To see evil and not call it evil is evil.

John Oliver

If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.

John Milton

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.