Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Confucius

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

Daniel Webster

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Dallas Willard

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

David Letterman

You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?

David Letterman

Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed.

David Letterman

Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends.

David Letterman

Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.

David Gemmell

When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.

David Gemmell

I make little distinction betwee those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

Jerome Flynn

We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is part of the fascination and the fear. If you can see evil and face it, it often doesn't look so evil, but the Ripper never got caught.

Thomas Graham

You have haunted me, ... Don't you look at me like that, Father. ... You're a bad, evil person.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Orson Scott Card

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

Orson Scott Card

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

Orson Scott Card

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

Ernest Cline

You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

Evangeline Lilly

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

Mindy Sterling

Not good vs evil. Only good vs evil is inside of you

Kirk Hammett

The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

Karl Marx

So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse.

Mary MacLane

I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings…

Mary McCarthy

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

Marvin Gaye

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Nazr Mohammed

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil.

Natan Sharansky

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

Muhammad Ali

My definition of evil is unfriendliness

Mikhail Lermontov

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

Mikhail Bulgakov

You pronounced your words as if you don’t acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?

Mikhail Bulgakov

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.