Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Ray Cyrus

There has always been a battle between good and evil.

Benjamin Haydon

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Carolyn Wells

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

Charles Hermite

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

Benjamin Whichcote

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Benjamin Tucker

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

William Shakespeare

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

Charles William Eliot

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

Aileen Wuornos

To me, this world is nothing but evil, and my own evil just happened to come out cause of the circumstances of what I was doing.

Billy Joel

You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.

Billy Joel

They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't.

Jane Austen

Evil to some is always good to others

Jared Diamond

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

Busta Rhymes

Got demons on both shoulders.

Alan Keyes

We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have been the evil in which they engaged, at least they were willing to acknowledge the principle by which their evil was condemned. We have even turned our back on the principle.

Alain Badiou

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Alain Badiou

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Al Franken

During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

Charles James Fox

a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.

Blaise Pascal

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

Blaise Pascal

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

Blaise Pascal

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Blaise Pascal

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

Bruce Campbell

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

Brian Helgeland

Its as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

Brandon Sanderson

Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.

Brandon Sanderson

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

Brandon Sanderson

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

Barbara Lee

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.

Baruch Spinoza

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

Baruch Spinoza

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.