Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fede Alvarez

There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.

Fanny Burney

Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.

Ezra Taft Benson

It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness

Eve Ensler

I am not saying people shouldn't be held accountable for terrible acts. But holding people in prisons does not necessarily make them responsible or accountable. It makes them bad. It makes them evil. It puts an end to any process of transformation. It hardens them spiritually and psychologically.

Euripides

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

Euripides

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Euripides

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

Euripides

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

Only a madman would give good for evil

Francesco Guicciardini

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

Francis Bacon

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Francis Bacon

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

George Washington

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

George W. Bush

Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.

George McGovern

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Chris Hayes

Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil.

George Orwell

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

George Carlin

The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind

George Carlin

With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.

Garry Winogrand

The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.

George Eliot

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Fiona Apple

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

Henry Miller

There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

Henry Miller

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

Henning Mankell

The evil always comes from details.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

Helen Keller

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.

Cassandra Clare

They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes

Gary Shteyngart

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

George Herbert

Evils have their comfort, good none can support.

Chris Hedges

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.