Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Urban

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

Mary Baker Eddy

Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.

Marquis de Sade

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

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.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

Mikhail Bakunin

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

Mikhail Gorbachev

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

Nadine Gordimer

You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

Miyamoto Musashi

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

Publilius Syrus

We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.

Publilius Syrus

What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?

Publilius Syrus

An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.

Publilius Syrus

The evil you do to others you may expect in return.

Publilius Syrus

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

Joseph Stalin

Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

Joseph Brodsky

After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

Joseph Brodsky

Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating ...

Leonardo da Vinci

It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

Leonardo da Vinci

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Oscar Wilde

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

Patrick Rothfuss

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

Leon Trotsky

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

Larry Wall

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

Paul Johnson

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.