Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

Plato

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

Plato

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

Plato

There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

Plato

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Plato

Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

Plato

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Philip Zimbardo

Heroism is the antidote to evil.

Philip Zimbardo

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

Philip Zimbardo

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

Laini Taylor

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Johnny Depp

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

John Stuart Mill

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

John Stuart Mill

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Ray

That which is evil is soon learned.

John Piper

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

Martin O'Malley

We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.

Martin Luther

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

Martin Luther

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Martin Luther

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

Martin Luther

Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.

Nick Cave

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

If there's a good side of Islam, at the end of the day it serves evil.

Philip Sidney

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

Philip James Bailey

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Philip James Bailey

Evil then results from imperfection.

Philip James Bailey

Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.

Penn Jillette

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

Paulo Coelho

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something like tolerance and contort it into a new form of intolerance and conformity. The way humanity can justify any kind of evil.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Now what other evil powers do you have that I should know about?” – Abigail “I can roll my tongue.” – Sundown “I’m serious, Jess.” – Abigail “So am I. Not everyone can do it. It’s a genetic thing, you know.” – Sundown

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the gods never meant to be flossed and used things that would be toxic to most living organisms. All to sanitize my body for your chewing pleasure.

Terry Pratchett

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.