Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mandy Patinkin

Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

Mahatma Gandhi

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

John Adams

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.

John Adams

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

John Adams

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.

James Joyce

Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

James Russell Lowell

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

James Russell Lowell

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

James Russell Lowell

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

Laurence Sterne

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

Kyle MacLachlan

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

Friedrich Schiller

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

George Gilder

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

Lucan

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Luc de Clapiers

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

Luc de Clapiers

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Jim Wallis

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

John Brunner

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

John Bradshaw

I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Eric Hoffer

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

Enoch Powell

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

James F. Cooper

There are evils worse than death,

James Comey

In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

James Chanos

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.