Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

John Adams

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.

John Adams

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

John Adams

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

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

Eric Hoffer

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

Enoch Powell

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

James F. Cooper

There are evils worse than death,

James Comey

In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

James Chanos

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.

James Anthony Froude

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

George Gilder

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

Luc de Clapiers

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

Luc de Clapiers

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

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 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.

Orson Scott Card

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

Sue Townsend

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

Eddie Johnson

It's a necessary evil. I'm trying to get him to a few of the All-American camps.

Sophocles

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

Sophocles

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

Sophocles

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

Sophocles

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Sophocles

Evil counsel travels fast.

Sophocles

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Sophocles

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Stephen King

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Stephen King

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

Ray Comfort

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

Ray Davies

She would be ready, but she would always make him wait.

Randy Alcorn

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.