Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tertullian

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

Terry Pratchett

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

Terry Eagleton

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

Terry Eagleton

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

Terry Eagleton

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

Terry Goodkind

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Lawrence Block

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Laura Schlessinger

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

Marcus Aurelius

...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

Marcus Aurelius

The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.

Marcus Aurelius

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Peter Kreeft

You have an evil twin who is always with you. He is called your ego.

Peter Kreeft

The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood.

Peter Kreeft

It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.

Peter Kreeft

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

Pema Chodron

Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.

Piers Anthony

If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

Phyllis Bottome

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

Philip Pullman

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Plato

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Joseph Joubert

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

Konrad Lorenz

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value

Kenneth Anger

I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.

Kenneth Anger

Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.

James F. Cooper

There are evils worse than death,

James Comey

In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

James Chanos

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.

James Anthony Froude

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Jacopo Sannazaro

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.