Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetic fire sank low in me When it was God I sought to see, But up it flamed, up to the sky, When it was Evil I had to fly

One does evil enough when one does nothing good

William Wordsworth

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.

Jane Austen

Evil to some is always good to others

Jared Diamond

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

The only possibility of reform in Los Angeles, which is a 'see no, hear no evil' city, is if there is the glaring eye of outside investigators from Sacramento and from Washington D.C.,

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

C. S. Lewis

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

C. S. Lewis

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

C. S. Lewis

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

C. S. Lewis

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

Busta Rhymes

Got demons on both shoulders.

Alan Keyes

We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have been the evil in which they engaged, at least they were willing to acknowledge the principle by which their evil was condemned. We have even turned our back on the principle.