Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Samuel Johnson

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

Virgil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Wayne Dyer

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

William Blake

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

Wallace Stegner

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

Winston Churchill

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

Lucy Stone

Leave women to find their sphere.

Charles de Lint

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?

David Harvey

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

Robert H. Schuller

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Michael Crichton

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

Franz Liszt

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

Tom DeLay

If somebody else doesn't file an ethics charge, I will.

Ingrid Reed

It's exactly what we want the ethics rules to prevent.

Deirdre Fedkenheuer

There was nothing in the file. What was in her file said that, 'Her services were no longer required.'There was nothing in there about ethics violations.

John Gibson

Really all I can say is whenever there have been problems with contributions they have been sent back. There's nothing in the ethics ordinance that prohibits contributions.

David Williams

You might think, 'How can I get it all right?' ... You have to put it into day-to-day practice. Ethics to me is when you internalize it.

Aleksandar Hemon

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

Swami Vivekananda

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Lance Armstrong

The question is not about me but about the process and the ethics,

Corliss Lamont

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.