Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adam Savage

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

Adam Clarke

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

A. E. Housman

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill

Aeschylus

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

Agatha Christie

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

Agatha Christie

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

Agatha Christie

there is evil everywhere under the sun.

Agatha Christie

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Adam Smith

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

Adam Hamilton

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

Abraham Lincoln

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

Wentworth Miller

I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped.

Andrew Greeley

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

Cornelius Nepos

No evil is great if it is the last.

Cornel West

The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.

Cormac McCarthy

The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.

Colin Mochrie

I have so many evil plans, I'm just trying to find the one which would be best right now!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Herodotus

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Socrates

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance

Jerome Flynn

We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is part of the fascination and the fear. If you can see evil and face it, it often doesn't look so evil, but the Ripper never got caught.

Thomas Graham

You have haunted me, ... Don't you look at me like that, Father. ... You're a bad, evil person.

Orson Scott Card

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

Orson Scott Card

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

Orson Scott Card

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

David Letterman

Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed.