Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in playing the villain as a loud caricature, one-dimensional character. I am trying to humanise evil. If you see… — Rishi Kapoor Copy Share Image
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“When ignorance is passed down for a long time without giving it a second thought, it leads to evil because you are… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“We can trace the operation of evil in the physical world…but I am more and more puzzled about it in the moral… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
This isn’t a game, human. Listen to the Skotos and go. We’re not bound by the laws of the Oneroi. Killing humans… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate… — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night? — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. — Plato Copy Share Image
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have - nice things - but happiness?… — Dani Alves Copy Share Image
When we are overcome by some evil will, should we not tremble before the presence of the choirs of angels that surround… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty. — George Washington Copy Share Image
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Power is neither good or evil, it just depends on how you choose to use it.-Rock, cats of the clans” — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“World is beautiful but it is dangerous place to live, there is so much evil behind a normal person.” — John Art Copy Share Image
“I know there are evil things in this world. The trick is to notice them when they are standing right in front… — Shannon Ryan Copy Share Image
I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of evil. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
“--perhaps monsters were misunderstood gods; deities with plans too grand for humans; a phantom of evil that drank from the roots of… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“...So little knows Any but God alone to value right The good before him but perverts best things To worst abuse or… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
