Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Friedenberg

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

Ed Sheeran

For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

Bobby Jindal

Weakness actually is a provocative to evil. You don't beat evil with weakness. You don't beat evil with concessions. You don't beat radical Islam by giving them more territory, giving them more money. You beat evil by strength.

Azar Nafisi

Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.

Ayn Rand

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

Ayn Rand

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Ayn Rand

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

Ayn Rand

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil!

Ayn Rand

When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.

Ayn Rand

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Ayn Rand

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

Ayn Rand

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Ayn Rand

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Bertrand Russell

It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin begins is a matter as to which casuists differ. One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. But I doubt whether modern authorities would agree with him on this point.

Bertrand Russell

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

Benito Mussolini

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

C. S. Lewis

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

C. S. Lewis

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

C. S. Lewis

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

C. S. Lewis

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

Craig Ferguson

Evil does not question itself. Only Hope questions itself.

Craig Ferguson

I'm always a bit shy around evil people...

Craig Ferguson

That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

Arthur Guiterman

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.

Aleister Crowley

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Alberto Manguel

Evil requires no reason.

Albert Einstein

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.