Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hesiod

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Hesiod

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

Hesiod

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

Heinrich Heine

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Heinrich Heine

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

Heraclitus

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

Hamid Karzai

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

Gordon Parks

I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil.

Gordon Parks

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

John Dryden

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.

John Dryden

I am devilishly afraid, that's certain; but ... I'll sing, that I may seem valiant.

John Maynard Keynes

The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.

John Maynard Keynes

The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.

John Lennon

I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine — and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it.

John Lennon

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine-and potentially evil.

Americans are not the only victims. The evil hand of terrorists has hit the human race. We are all victims.

For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

Jack Abramoff

For a guy who did all these evil things ... it's pretty amazing, considering I didn't know anyone.

They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want them to acknowledge it. I want them to acknowledge that what they did to me was wrong.

It is our obligation to free them from the clutches of evil, evil that has no boundaries,

Zahi Hawass

This is the jealousy, ... of the followers of the evil god Seth.

There's a windfall ... But that's not evil.

Our understanding is you should wear something red for the whole year to keep off the evil spirits. It can be red underwear, a red belt, or even red socks.

Samuel Butler

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

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.