Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Ferguson

I'm always a bit shy around evil people...

Craig Ferguson

That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

Arthur Guiterman

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

Sir, the world is watching Wall Street. Show these evil people what you're made of. Buy, buy, buy.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything

Bruce Campbell

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

Brian Helgeland

Its as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

Brandon Sanderson

Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.

Brandon Sanderson

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

Brandon Sanderson

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

Barbara Lee

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

Baruch Spinoza

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

Baruch Spinoza

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

Azar Nafisi

Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.

Ayn Rand

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

Ayn Rand

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Ayn Rand

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

Ian McDiarmid

Yes I was, and again, I didn't know how evil he was going to be - I knew he was going to be pretty evil - until I got the script.

Charles Bukowski

I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.

Edward Abbey

How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

Auberon Waugh

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.

Aubrey Plaza

I do have magical powers, I try to use them for good and not evil, but I can pretty much make anyone do whatever I want them to do, if they're within range.

Aristotle

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

Ben Jonson

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Dr. Oaks made the remark that, according to the best estimate he could make, there were four hundred murders annually produced by abortion in that county alone....There must be a remedy for such a crying evil as this.

The prime minister, the foreign minister and the trade minister were the three wise monkeys: they saw no evil, they spoke no evil, they heard no evil but they knew all about it. It's a sorry story of a government in a mode of reckless negligence.

Dave Pelzer

...and deliver me from evil." "Amen.