Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

Mike Pence

We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!

Victor Hugo

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

Vernor Vinge

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

Veronica Roth

Evil depends on where you're standing.

Richard Bach

Fear not, nor be dismayed at the appearance that is darkness, at the disguise that is evil, at the empty cloak that is death, for you have picked these for your challenges. They are stones on which you choose to whet the keen edge of your spirit.

Rick Moranis

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

Thomas More

A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

Thomas Paine

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

Thomas Holcroft

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.

Thomas Browne

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

Robert Kennedy

It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.

Walt Whitman

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

Samuel Rutherford

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Samuel Johnson

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

Samuel Johnson

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

Samuel Johnson

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

Samuel Johnson

Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.

Samuel Johnson

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

Robert Baer

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

Richard M. Nixon

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

Raymond E. Feist

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

Robert Dale Owen

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

Tupac Shakur

Evil's lurking, I can see him smirking.

Tupac Shakur

the evil the u are the brighter u will get

Valerie Bertinelli

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.

Ulysses S. Grant

I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.

Veronica Roth

Human reason can excuse any evil.

Veronica Roth

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.