Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Ellery Channing

I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.

William Faulkner

We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

Willem de Kooning

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

Whittaker Chambers

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

Ronald Reagan

There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.

Ronald Reagan

The Soviet Union is the focus of evil in the modern world.

Saint Basil

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

Saint Basil

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

Saint Francis de Sales

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

Saint Francis de Sales

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

Saint Francis de Sales

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Saint Augustine

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

Saint Augustine

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

Saint Augustine

Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

Saint Augustine

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

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.

Robert Cormier

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Rob James-Collier

I just want to say thank you to everyone who watched and tuned in and loved my evil gayness.

Richard John Neuhaus

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

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

Robert Kennedy

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

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