Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Jerry Bridges

Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Virgil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

William Blake

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

Rudolfo Anaya

It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.

W. H. Auden

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Vasily Grossman

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

Ursula K. Le Guin

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

Willem de Kooning

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

Whittaker Chambers

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

Ronald Reagan

There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.

Ronald Reagan

The Soviet Union is the focus of evil in the modern world.

Saint Basil

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

Saint Basil

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

Saint Francis de Sales

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

Saint Francis de Sales

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

Saint Francis de Sales

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Saint Augustine

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

William Kingdon Clifford

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

Samuel Johnson

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

Samuel Johnson

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

Samuel Johnson

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Samuel Johnson

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.

Ryan Giggs

Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate off the film The Omen. He's evil. Even in training.

William Hazlitt

To great evils we submit; yet we resent little provocations.

William Hazlitt

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Walter Raleigh

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

Yann Martel

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

Willie Nelson

Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

William Peter Blatty

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

William Petty

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.