Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Chalmers

... moral evil is its own curse.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

Thomas Brooks

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

Viggo Mortensen

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

Victor Hugo

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

Victor Hugo

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

Vernor Vinge

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

Veronica Roth

Evil depends on where you're standing.

Vaclav Havel

Evil must be confronted in its womb and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.

Tryon Edwards

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

Suzanne Collins

the evil thing is inside, not out.

Sophocles

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

Sophocles

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

Sophocles

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

Sophocles

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Sophocles

Evil counsel travels fast.

Sophocles

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Sophocles

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Stephen King

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Stephen King

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

Stephen King

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Stephen Ambrose

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

Stefan Molyneux

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Stefan Molyneux

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.

Stefan Molyneux

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Taylor Momsen

Good and evil exists everywhere.

Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

Tacitus

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

Swami Vivekananda

We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present.

Swami Vivekananda

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

Swami Vivekananda

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

Swami Vivekananda

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.