Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Edith Hamilton

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evil is only good perverted.

Henri Nouwen

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

Henri Nouwen

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

James Russell Lowell

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

Laurence Sterne

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

Kyle MacLachlan

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

Friedrich Schiller

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

George Gilder

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

Lucan

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Luc de Clapiers

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

Luc de Clapiers

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Jim Wallis

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

John Brunner

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

John Bradshaw

I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

Mahatma Gandhi

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

John Adams

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.