Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Hopkins

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

John Bunyan

He that doth righteousness; that is, righteousness which the gospel calleth so, is righteous; that is, precedent to, or before he doth that righteousness. For he doth not say, he shall make his person righteous by acts of righteousness that he shall do; for then an evil tree may bear good fruit, yea, and make itself good by doing so; but he saith, He that doth righteousness is righteous; as he saith, He that doth righteousness is born of him.

Lois Lowry

Evil can do anything, for a price.

Lloyd Alexander

Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.

Lloyd Alexander

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Manu Bennett

To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.

T. S. Eliot

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

T. S. Eliot

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

Suzanne Massie

All that the Devil asks is acquiescence ...

Susan Sontag

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Ray Comfort

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

Ray Davies

She would be ready, but she would always make him wait.

Randy Alcorn

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

Thomas Jefferson

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Thomas Jefferson

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

Thomas Jefferson

When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

Tupac Shakur

the evil the u are the brighter u will get

Valerie Bertinelli

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.

Ulysses S. Grant

I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.

Robert Cormier

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Rob James-Collier

I just want to say thank you to everyone who watched and tuned in and loved my evil gayness.

Richard John Neuhaus

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Richard Dawkins

Bush and bin Laden are really on the same side: the side of faith and violence against the side of reason and discussion. Both have implacable faith that they are right and the other is evil.

Richard Dawkins

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Richard Whately

Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.

Richard Whately

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Richelle Mead

Never thought my biggest cheerleader would be someone who thought I was evil and unnatural.

Richelle Mead

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina

Viggo Mortensen

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

Victor Hugo

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

Victor Hugo

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

Vernor Vinge

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

Veronica Roth

Evil depends on where you're standing.