Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

Alice Hoffman

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

Alice Hoffman

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

Alice Cooper

I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.

Alice Cooper

It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming.

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.

Alexander McCall Smith

The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.

Alexander Pope

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

E. M. Forster

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

E. M. Forster

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Donald Barthelme

There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, "Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch.

Don DeLillo

Evil is movement towards void.

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.

Donald Trump

I'm not sure everybody agrees with me. I guess a lot of people don't. We are living in a time that's as evil as any time that there has ever been.

David Harsanyi

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

Coretta Scott King

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

Confucius

Return good for good; return evil with justice.