Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

John Adams

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

Louise Erdrich

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

George Arnold

I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

George Ayittey

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. However, a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either nonexistent or weak.

The evil spirits can only walk in a straight line, so the idea is that the spirits will fall in the pond.

Julius Caesar

The evil men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones,

Maurice Sendak

You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.

Matthieu Ricard

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

Matt Taibbi

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.

Maximilien Robespierre

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Maya Angelou

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

Matthew McConaughey

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Patricia Briggs

If there was such evil in the world, was it possible that there was good, too?

Patricia Briggs

Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.

Patricia Briggs

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

Patricia Briggs

Evil must always be fought.

Plautus

The evil that we know is best.

Plautus

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

Plautus

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]

Plautus

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]

Plautus

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.

Plato

To do wrong is the greatest of evils.

Plato

All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

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.