Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

Frank Zappa

I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed.

Fred Rogers

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

Frank Herbert

Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

Frank Herbert

The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.

George H. W. Bush

We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

Harmon Killebrew

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Guru Nanak

Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.

Jim Butcher

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

Jim Butcher

Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

Jim Butcher

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

Jim Butcher

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

Honore de Balzac

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

Honore de Balzac

Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

Honore de Balzac

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.

Sathya Baba

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Hutton Gibson

Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.

Gregory Maguire

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Gregory Maguire

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.

J. R. R. Tolkien

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.

J. R. R. Tolkien

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

Isaac Asimov

All evil is good become cancerous.

Iris Chang

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

Immanuel Kant

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

Francis Schaeffer

God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.

Horace

Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

Homer

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

Homer

And would'st thou evil for his good repay?

Homer

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.