I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The documentary in reality very much operates with these stereotypes in mind. You're either good or evil, you're either righteous or a… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The Devil is present everywhere that evil things happen within the normal laws of nature. In anyone who says: I don’t accept… — Matt Baglio Copy Share Image
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“I do not accept evil. Man is perfect. The soul does not fall. Progress exists. . . . Up till now, misfortune… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
“It is not real," he whispered. "This place is only a thought that has grabbed hold of you. It cannot harm you.… — Rita Murphy Copy Share Image
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Scapegoating is as American as apple pie. And because there's almost always a racial or ethnic dynamic to it in our country,… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
“You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The power of evil was nothing more than a tangible thing, something that given the strength of will, could be broken as… — Nathan Robinson Copy Share Image
What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does.… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul. — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We… — Robert Foster Bennett Copy Share Image
“Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“If a friend starts behaving silly because you bother him so much, don't worry, you're not the first person, he has got… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Magic doesn't make a man evil,' he said. 'It's just a skill. It isn't inherently good or bad. It's what's in his… — Sarah Tolcser Copy Share Image
“We no longer have any time to waste, entertaining our dark side. It is time we recognize those evil elements of our… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. — Heraclitus 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
Magnus did not like to go near the Hotel Dumont if he could help it. It was decrepit and unsettling, it held… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
