Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

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

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.

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.

W. H. Auden

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Vasily Grossman

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

Ursula K. Le Guin

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

Walt Whitman

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

William Cowper

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

Sandra Day O'Connor

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

Jorge Luis Borges

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Mahatma Gandhi

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death.

Eric Hoffer

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

Norman Vincent Peale

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Norman Vincent Peale

There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.

Tom DeLay

I think that the judicial system should not be open to the kind of criticism that would naturally happen if Judge Perkins remains on the case,

Robert M. Gates

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Rose Tremain

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'

W. Somerset Maugham

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

Terje Hauge

If the manager has any criticism of me I want him to say it to my face. I want a managers to talk to me after the game but before going to his news conference.

Corazon Aquino

I know I will receive a lot of criticism for this but I will do what I think is right for our country,

Graeme Souness

I have to say there's a great deal of criticism flying about,

Henry David Thoreau

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Octavio Paz

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings