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.

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.

William Blake

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

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.

Rudolfo Anaya

It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.

Rudolf Steiner

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

W. H. Auden

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Robert Mueller

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Rick Warren

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Samuel Johnson

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language.

William H. Seward

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.

Yoko Ono

We’ve been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.

Robert Buchanan

Clearly, Wal-Mart's fortunes over the next 12 to 18 months hinge on the quality of the job that Eduardo Castro- Wright does. He is the man on the hot seat.

Frank Darabont

It's been a great run of good fortune for me as a writer.

Leon Battista Alberti

As ability goes, so goes our fortune.

Tom Golisano

We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.

Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Benjamin Franklin

No man's life, liberty or fortune is safe while our legislature is in session.

Dikembe Mutombo

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

Mahatma Gandhi

What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune

Andriy Shevchenko

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.