Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Badiou

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

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.

Daniel H. Wilson

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Bob Dole

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

Dennis Prager

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

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 Burke

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

Edgar Allan Poe

You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

Auberon Waugh

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.

Diane von Furstenberg

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

T. S. Eliot

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

Steve Erickson

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Steven Pressfield

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Kevin Whately

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Niklaus Wirth

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Shunryu Suzuki

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

Lara Pulver

It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just a device for her; it wasn't nudity for nudity's sake.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.