Quotes:
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
View quotes by Quintilian
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
View quotes by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the bud (Attributed)
View quotes by Sir Boyle Roche
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
View quotes by Plutarch
Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker: he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript.
View quotes by David H Donald
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
View quotes by Henry L Mencken
For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.
View quotes by Saint Augustine
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.
View quotes by John Newton
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
View quotes by Thomas Hardy
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
View quotes by Hannah Arendt
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
View quotes by Margaret Mead
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
View quotes by Adlai Stevenson
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
View quotes by David Ogilvy
Suzi Quatro seemed immeasurably cool to an eight year old. I found her music liberating and exciting as I danced around this tiny, tinny speaker with my brothers.
View quotes by Nick Clegg
Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on. [on the London terror attacks, 7th July 2005]
View quotes by Jan Peter Balkenende
Think not lightly of evil, saying, 'It will not come to me.'
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.
Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil.
View quotes by Buddha
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
View quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
View quotes by Jim Morrison
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