Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis

Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.

Paulo Coelho

Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

Phil Spector

God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil.

Phil Ochs

I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.

Phil Robertson

The more make up a woman wears the more she's tryin to hide. Make up can hide a lot of evil.

Poe Ballantine

Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

Plutarch

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

Pope Francis

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

Pope Francis

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

Mike Pence

We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!

Peace Pilgrim

Evil cannot be overcome by more evil. Evil can only be overcome by good. It is the lesson of the way of love.

Peace Pilgrim

Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.

Terry Pratchett

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

Terry Eagleton

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

Terry Eagleton

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

Peter Kreeft

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

Pema Chodron

Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.

Piers Anthony

If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

Phyllis Bottome

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

Philip Pullman

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Plato

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Joseph Joubert

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

Konrad Lorenz

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value

Kenneth Anger

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

Kenneth Anger

Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.

Ramakrishna

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

Ramana Maharshi

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

Ralph Fiennes

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

Laura Bush

We can overcome evil with greater good.