Quotes of: Greater-evil Keyword

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

David Viscott

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

James Russell Lowell

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Pearl S. Buck

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

Pythagoras

You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!

Rachel Bilson

He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.

Rosario Dawson

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Scott Alexander

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Xun Zi

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin th...

Billy Graham

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

Emo Philips

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

G.K. Chesterton

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Charles Darwin

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Carl Jung

Evil forges a tornado. But goodness battles in a straight line.

Caris Roane

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Jeremy Bentham

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

Desmond Tutu

The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Evil imaginations causes harm to others. Such things do not dwell in the mind of a righteous person.

Ellen J. Barrier

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Emile M. Cioran

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was evil.

Edmund Carver

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

E. M. Forster