“never believed in demons or monsters lurking under my bed. But lately I’ve started to wonder if evil hasn’t in fact infiltrated… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I recognized that there are some well-known, little understood, and seldom practiced laws that we must live by if we wish to… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
“Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President,… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a… — Socrates Copy Share Image
In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive… — Dogen Copy Share Image
This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father… — Spotted Tail Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The ultimate evil is the weakness, cowardice, that is one of the constituents of so much human nature. When, rarely, unalloyed nobility… — John Simon Copy Share Image
I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good,… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is… — Jerome Flynn Copy Share Image
Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
And in his third essay Herodius (not Herodotus, a mistaken pronunciation, perhaps) said 'We can contend with the evil that men do… — Richard Boone Copy Share Image
“This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we,… — Eleftherios Venizelos Copy Share Image
Whether the Republicans intentions are good or evil - I pretty much assume that they're evil - but no matter what, man,… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
