Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tryon Edwards

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

Suzanne Collins

the evil thing is inside, not out.

Sophocles

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

Sophocles

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

Sophocles

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

Sophocles

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Sophocles

Evil counsel travels fast.

Sophocles

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Sophocles

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Stephen King

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Stephen King

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

Stephen King

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Stephen Ambrose

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

Stefan Molyneux

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

Stefan Molyneux

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.

Stefan Molyneux

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Thomas Mann

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Thomas Malthus

The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.

Thomas Malthus

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Thomas Malthus

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

Thomas Merton

...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

Thomas Carlyle

There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.

Thomas Carlyle

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

Thomas Carlyle

Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

Thomas Carlyle

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.

Thomas Carlyle

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

Tony Campolo

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

Tony Campolo

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Steven Biko

Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

Steven Biko

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil

Stephen Harper

Evil comes in many forms and seems to reinvent itself time and again. But whatever it calls itself - Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, today, terrorism - they all have one thing in common: the destruction, the end of human liberty.

Stephen King

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.