Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything

Alfred Russel Wallace

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

Alexander Berkman

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

Alex Garland

Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley

Aldous Huxley

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Aldous Huxley

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Aldous Huxley

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

Aldous Huxley

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

Albert Einstein

The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.

Albert Einstein

The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.

Albert Einstein

The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.

Alexander Hamilton

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of the nation to a level with its income. Till this shall be accomplished, the finances of the United States will never wear proper countenance. Arrears of interest, continually accruing, will be as continual a monument, either of inability, or of ill faith and will not cease to have an evil influence on public credit.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Adolf Hitler

Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

Adolf Hitler

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

Adolf Hitler

We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?

Andrew Greeley

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

Wentworth Miller

I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped.

Dennis Prager

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Lynn Flewelling

It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

We did the right thing, we did the only thing. We stopped a great evil,

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Adam Savage

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

Adam Clarke

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Allen Ginsberg

It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.

Allen Ginsberg

That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this "entity," as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit.

Aeschines

An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

Aesop

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Aesop

Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.