Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.

James Joyce

Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

James Russell Lowell

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

Kyle MacLachlan

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

Friedrich Schiller

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Luc de Clapiers

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

Luc de Clapiers

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

John Bradshaw

I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Eric Hoffer

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

Enoch Powell

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

James Comey

In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

Norman Rockwell

The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.

Norman Mailer

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Norman Mailer

The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.

Os Guinness

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

Os Guinness

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

Orson Welles

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

Orhan Pamuk

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

Orison Swett Marden

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Norman Vincent Peale

No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.

Emile Zola

How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

Ellen Key

The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

Eric Schmidt

One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition.

Epictetus

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

Epicurus

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Epicurus

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

Epicurus

Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up to punish the offense.

Epicurus

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

Epictetus

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

Epictetus

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Epictetus

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.