Famous Quotes & Sayings

Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.

Nick Clooney

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

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.

John Winthrop

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.

John Woo

I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

John Wycliffe

I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.

John Ruskin

Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

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.

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.

Menander

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Menander

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

Mencius

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

Michel Houellebecq

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

Patricia Velasquez

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