Famous Quotes & Sayings

One does evil enough when one does nothing good

William Wordsworth

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Eric Roberts

I'm hoping to get out of playing evil incarnate people, and hopefully play more people like myself. I hope people see me as likeable.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

C. S. Lewis

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

C. S. Lewis

Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

C. S. Lewis

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

C. S. Lewis

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

Carl Rogers

True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".

Bill Vaughan

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

Bertrand Russell

One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.

Whoever speaks evil to you of others will speak evil of you to others.

Tony Martin

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Kenny Wallace

Well, it's very boring. It's very boring. I guess I view it as a necessary evil.

Samuel Butler

It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Jean de la Bruyere

The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

Jean de la Bruyere

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

Jay-Z

And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils

Jared Harris

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

Jane Porter

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

Jane Roberts

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

Euripides

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

Ernest Cline

You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

Fulton J. Sheen

A person is great, not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God.

Fulton J. Sheen

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

Frank Norris

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

Francois Rabelais

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

Christopher Golden

I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.

Christine O'Donnell

There’s only truth and not truth. You’re either very good or evil.

Chris Hedges

The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

Gertrude Stein

Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to.