Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Badiou

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Alain Badiou

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Al Franken

During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

Charles James Fox

a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

Edmund Spenser

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

Edmund Burke

Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from which it would fly.

Edmund Burke

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Edmund Burke

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Edmund Burke

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Edmund Burke

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Colin Mochrie

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

Albert Camus

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

Albert Camus

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

Albert Camus

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

Albert Camus

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.

Annie Besant

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

Czeslaw Milosz

Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.

D. H. Lawrence

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Danny Huston

I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.

Daniel De Leon

The Catholic Church... upheld feudalism, then monarchism, warning of growing evils and possible revolutions. In the same manner, and under the same reservations, she now upholds capitalism; but, above all things and forever, she upholds the Catholic Church.

Daniel Defoe

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

Don McLean

As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

Douglas Adams

Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.

Dorothea Dix

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Donna Summer

I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad.

Daniel Pinkwater

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

Damian Marley

Fear not of evil.. Everyday dem flesh it grow old Changes of the time take the toll.

E. B. White

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

Douglas Horton

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Aneurin Bevan

Advertising is 'an evil service'.

Anatole France

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Anais Nin

we cannot cure the evils of politics with politics ...