Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot,… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Clary: "He wanted me to come with him. To join him and Sebastain. I guess he wants their evil little duo to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If I play a video game, I have to get through the whole thing. Like, when the new 'Resident Evil' comes out,… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Most evil comes from the belief that one is a victim, or one's group is a victim — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.” — P.W. Atkins Copy Share Image
Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Celebrity is no different from any other energy. It's a force for good or evil. It's no different from money. It's power. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“They’ve worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.” — Nina Bangs Copy Share Image
Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
“They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was… — Jens Bjørneboe Copy Share Image
There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
“This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti, that's right it's wicked, that's life I live it. Ain't askin' for forgiveness for… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image