Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franklin Graham

Islam is an evil and wicked religion.

Francois Fenelon

This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

Frank A. Clark

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Livy

The best known evil is the most tolerable.

Louis D. Brandeis

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

Lord Byron

The devil was the first democrat

Lord Byron

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Lord Kelvin

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

Malcolm Forbes

How in heck are they handling their surplus population in Hell these days? Maybe by the time you and I are in the queue there won't be room for us.

Maimonides

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

Maimonides

The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.

Maimonides

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi

To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

Freya Stark

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

Madame de Stael

The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]

Joel C. Rosenberg

Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous

Joel C. Rosenberg

To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.

Joe Mantegna

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

Joanne Harris

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

Jo Nesbo

A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Mahatma Gandhi

My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.

James St. James

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

James Stewart

The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.

Emanuel Swedenborg

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.

Ellis Peters

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

Edith Hamilton

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evil is only good perverted.

Henri Nouwen

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

Henri Nouwen

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

Hesiod

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.