Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacque Fresco

It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

Jacque Fresco

Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Mahatma Gandhi

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

Mandy Patinkin

Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!

Morihei Ueshiba

Aikido is the principle of non-resistance. Because it is non-resistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious thoughts are instantly vanquished. Aikido is invincible because it contends with nothing.

Milan Kundera

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.

Joseph Addison

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

Joseph Addison

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

Jose Saramago

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.

Jose Marti

We are free, but no to be evil

Jose Marti

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

Jorge Cruise

If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil.

Jorge Luis Borges

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

Jorge Luis Borges

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Joni Eareckson Tada

God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.

Joni Mitchell

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

Laini Taylor

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Johnny Depp

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

John Stuart Mill

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

John Stuart Mill

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Ray

That which is evil is soon learned.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.

James Joyce

Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

James Russell Lowell

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

James Russell Lowell

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Thomas a Kempis

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

Thomas Aquinas

God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.

Simon Conway Morris

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

Taya Kyle

I challenge anyone to tell me that there isn’t evil in this world. From the days of Cain and Abel we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn’t take away our freedoms. In fact, the only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.