Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Krugman

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.

Paramahansa Yogananda

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

Ovid

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

Ovid

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

P. C. Cast

No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil

Percy Bysshe Shelley

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

Meher Baba

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

Pope Benedict XVI

The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good.

Pope Benedict XVI

A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia.

Pope Benedict XVI

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

James L. Farmer, Jr.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Jimi Hendrix

You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else.

Jimi Hendrix

Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.

Jim Morrison

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…

Jim Morrison

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Erik Larson

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

John Henry Newman

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

John Henry Newman

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

John Hagee

To see evil and not call it evil is evil.

John Oliver

If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.

John Milton

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

Leo Tolstoy

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

Leo Buscaglia

We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

Joseph Campbell

The process of nature cannot be evil.

Joseph Campbell

You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

Joseph Campbell

All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.

Karl Barth

Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

Josh Ryan Evans

I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

Joseph Cook

If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.

Joseph de Maistre

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.