Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kingdon Clifford

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

William S. Burroughs

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Evil changes everybody!

Woodrow Wilson

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

Woody Allen

Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.

William Shakespeare

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William James

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

William James

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

William James

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

William Friedkin

All of the films I have made, that I have chosen to make, are all about the thin line between good and evil. And also the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. That's what my films are about.

Will Durant

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

Sara Zarr

I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: “It's not too late to change your mind.

Sappho

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

Sappho

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

Salman Khan

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

Salman Rushdie

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

Salman Rushdie

Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.

Rudolfo Anaya

It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.

Rudolf Steiner

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

Wangari Maathai

Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.

W. H. Auden

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

W. H. Auden

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

W. H. Auden

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Vasily Grossman

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

Ursula K. Le Guin

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

Ursula K. Le Guin

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

Walt Whitman

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

William Hazlitt

To great evils we submit; yet we resent little provocations.

William Hazlitt

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Walter Raleigh

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

Yann Martel

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.