Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Alcorn

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

Thomas Jefferson

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Thomas Jefferson

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

Thomas Jefferson

When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

Walter Lang

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

Walter Lippmann

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

Voltaire

Let us confess it: evil strides the world.

Voltaire

A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

Voltaire

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

Walter Scott

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.

Walter Scott

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

William Kingdon Clifford

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

William S. Burroughs

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Evil changes everybody!

Woodrow Wilson

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

Woody Allen

Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.

William Shakespeare

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William James

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

William James

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

William James

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

William Friedkin

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

Will Durant

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

Sara Zarr

I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: “It's not too late to change your mind.

Sappho

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

Sappho

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

Samuel Smiles

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

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.