Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovadia Yosef

It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. [...] The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

Kami Garcia

Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan.

Kami Garcia

Power is neither good nor evil.

Joyce Meyer

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Paul Krugman

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.

Madame de Stael

The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.

Hamid Karzai

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

Gordon Parks

I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil.

Gordon Parks

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

John Dryden

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

John Dryden

I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.

Jim Wallis

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

John Brunner

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

John Bradshaw

I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

Matthieu Ricard

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

Matt Taibbi

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.

Maximilien Robespierre

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Maya Angelou

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

Matthew McConaughey

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Edith Hamilton

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

Jonathan Haidt

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

Jonah Goldberg

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

Joyce Carol Oates

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

Richard Dawkins

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

Richard Dawkins

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Richard Whately

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

Richard Whately

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Richelle Mead

Never thought my biggest cheerleader would be someone who thought I was evil and unnatural.

Richelle Mead

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina

Tryon Edwards

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

Rick Riordan

Genius does not excuse evil.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.