Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikolai Berdyaev

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

N. T. Wright

The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death.

Morris Raphael Cohen

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Ravi Zacharias

Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.

Ravi Zacharias

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

Ray Bradbury

Good to evil seems evil

Ray Bradbury

Evil has only the power we give it.

Shana Alexander

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground ...

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

Sholem Asch

God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.

Seth Grahame-Smith

The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.

Lydia M. Child

It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

Lucretius

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]

Lucretius

How many evils have flowed from religion.

Lucretius

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

Lucretius

Only religion can lead to such evil.

Louis Farrakhan

Every time we have had a presidential election where there is "White or Black," you always have to choose between the lesser of two evils, so you either vote for "Satan" or the "Devil," and you catch hell with either one.

Michel de Montaigne

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

Michel de Montaigne

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

Michel de Montaigne

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

Michel de Montaigne

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Michel de Montaigne

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

Michael Novak

Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will help us. Trust Him.

Mark Twain

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

Marilyn Manson

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

Marilyn Manson

I wanna die young and sell my soul, use up all your drugs and make me come.

Marilyn Manson

Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.

Michael Gruber

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.

Merle Haggard

Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.

Mason Cooley

Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.

Martin Van Buren

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

Michael Moore

I say one evil empire down...one to go.

Michael Moore

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.