Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marquis de Sade

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

Mary MacLane

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings…

Mary McCarthy

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

Marvin Gaye

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Pat Robertson

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

Pat Robertson

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

Ozzy Osbourne

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.

Ozzy Osbourne

Black illusion is all I ever see.

Ovid

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

Ovid

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

Ovid

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

Mary Wollstonecraft

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Marshall McLuhan

Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

Marshall McLuhan

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Michel de Montaigne

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

Michel de Montaigne

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

Michel de Montaigne

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

Michel de Montaigne

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Michel de Montaigne

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

Michael Novak

Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will help us. Trust Him.

Mark Twain

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Marilyn Manson

There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers

Marilyn Manson

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

Marilyn Manson

I wanna die young and sell my soul, use up all your drugs and make me come.

Marilyn Manson

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

Michael Gruber

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

Frank Norris

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

Francois Rabelais

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

Christopher Golden

I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.

Christine O'Donnell

There’s only truth and not truth. You’re either very good or evil.

Chris Murphy

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.