Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I always expect the worst from this evil and wicked world and am often pleasantly surprised when the worst does not come… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
We have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good - always do the right, ethical thing.… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“We all draw different lines. Sometimes they intersect. Sometimes they don’t. We agree on forms of evil, but judge degrees of it,… — Mike Wech Copy Share Image
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Have you heard of the most evil things done by people in their lifetime? They have coveted men's wives, killed hundreds of… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Power belongs to the intelligence of evil. It's totally unreflective, like Donald Trump. It belongs there. — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being amusing. — Sydney Biddle Barrows Copy Share Image
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Evil is like a Vampire. When you take arms against it and destroy it, you find in the end that you are… — Denis Johnston Copy Share Image
“You can't tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil. — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
CRUELTY comes after the DEATH, (after death becoming GHOST/EVIL/DEVIL), but some will have it from BIRTH. — RamanaRao VB Copy Share Image
“The problem of evil has always seemed to me to be the price we pay for having an intelligible world, one that… — Leah Libresco Copy Share Image
Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“It seemed unreal and unfair—that someone purposed for such evil could appear so alluring and ethereal.” — Michayla Roth Copy Share Image
When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if… — Bjork Copy Share Image
All the best, Sydney P.S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car. P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
