Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

Jane Campion

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

Jane Goodall

Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out. The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

Jane Goodall

Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.

Juvenal

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.

Juvenal

There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]

Ian McDiarmid

Yes I was, and again, I didn't know how evil he was going to be - I knew he was going to be pretty evil - until I got the script.

Charles Bukowski

I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.

Benjamin Franklin

If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

Benjamin Franklin

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

Ben Affleck

You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

Arthur Bryant

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

Baltasar Gracian

Evil report carries further than any applause.

Baltasar Gracian

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words..

Dean Koontz

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

Dean Koontz

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

Dean Koontz

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

Daniel H. Wilson

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

Daniel Handler

Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.

Bob Dole

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

Bob Dylan

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

Bobby Fischer

The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.

Brigham Young

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

Edmund Spenser

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

Edmund Burke

Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from which it would fly.

Edmund Burke

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Edmund Burke

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Edmund Burke

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Edmund Burke

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.