Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Eagleton

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

Terry Goodkind

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.

Terry Brooks

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

Teju Cole

The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

Randall Jarrell

In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Lawrence Block

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Laura Schlessinger

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

Marcus Aurelius

...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

Marcus Aurelius

The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.

Marcus Aurelius

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Thomas a Kempis

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

Simon Conway Morris

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

Taya Kyle

I challenge anyone to tell me that there isn’t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn’t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

Josh Ryan Evans

I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

Joseph Cook

If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.

Joseph de Maistre

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Different isn't evil, it's just different.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?

Laurell K. Hamilton

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

Lars von Trier

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

L. J. Smith

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace

John D. Rockefeller

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

Leo Tolstoy

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

Leo Tolstoy

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

Peter Kreeft

You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.

Peter Kreeft

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

Peter Kreeft

It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.