Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Jonson

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Alexis de Tocqueville

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.

Alexis de Tocqueville

everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure

Albert Schweitzer

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

Dennis Prager

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Lynn Flewelling

It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

We did the right thing, we did the only thing. We stopped a great evil,

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Samuel Butler

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.

Aleister Crowley

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Alberto Manguel

Evil requires no reason.

Albert Einstein

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

Albert Einstein

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything

Alfred Russel Wallace

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

Alexander Berkman

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

Alex Garland

Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley

Aldous Huxley

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Aldous Huxley

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Aldous Huxley

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

Aldous Huxley

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

Albert Einstein

The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.

Albert Einstein

The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.

Albert Einstein

The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.

Alexander Hamilton

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of the nation to a level with its income. Till this shall be accomplished, the finances of the United States will never wear proper countenance. Arrears of interest, continually accruing, will be as continual a monument, either of inability, or of ill faith and will not cease to have an evil influence on public credit.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Adolf Hitler

Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

Adolf Hitler

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

Adolf Hitler

We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?