Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Hedges

The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

Gertrude Stein

Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

Herbert Spencer

Evil perpetually tends to disappear.

Herbert Spencer

We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

Herman Melville

Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

Herman Melville

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

Herman Melville

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

Herman Melville

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

Henry David Thoreau

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Henry David Thoreau

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

By doing good we become good.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Jerry Garcia

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

Jeremy Bentham

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Jean de La Fontaine

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Grover Cleveland

At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.

Gregory Maguire

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

Homer

And empty words are evil.

Howard Zinn

I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.

Horace

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

Hannah Arendt

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

Hannah Arendt

Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.

Hannah Arendt

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

Hannah Arendt

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Gouverneur Morris

He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt.

Gore Vidal

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

James Boswell

Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.