Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Paul Johnson

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Patricia Velasquez

I also feel that if you were evil, then next time around you would be very good.

Ravi Zacharias

Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe.

Ravi Zacharias

Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.

Tom Hiddleston

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

Tom DeLay

These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.

Simon Winchester

Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.

Sinclair Lewis

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.

Socrates

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

Socrates

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Socrates

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

Socrates

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

Socrates

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

Joe Meno

An act of evil is the death of wonder

Joe Meno

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Joe Dante

I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?

Jodi Picoult

There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.

Pat Robertson

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

Pat Robertson

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

Ozzy Osbourne

Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.

Ozzy Osbourne

Black illusion is all I ever see.

Ovid

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

Ovid

Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

Ovid

There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.

Eddie Johnson

It's a necessary evil. I'm trying to get him to a few of the All-American camps.

It is our obligation to free them from the clutches of evil, evil that has no boundaries,

David Wilkerson

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

David Ogilvy

Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

Dag Hammarskjold

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Daisaku Ikeda

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

Condoleezza Rice

When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill.