Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Butler

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Dennis Prager

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Lynn Flewelling

It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, going about their daily lives, fool themselves into thinking that that's how our little world works, but it just isn't so.

George Robertson

We did the right thing, we did the only thing. We stopped a great evil,

Dean Stanley

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

English Proverbs

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Andrew Greeley

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

Wentworth Miller

I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped.

Patrick McGoohan

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself

Mark Wagner

The outrage here is over defaming the Prophet which is a specific crime in Islamic law.

Charles M. Blow

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

Val McDermid

I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.

Ving Rhames

I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

Jim Solomons

We dispatched homicide investigators to the hospital and forensic crime scene investigators to the attraction, and the scene was secured.

Karin Slaughter

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

S. J. Rozan

The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.

Quintin Mikell

Those are human beings. That's where people live. It doesn't matter how much crime or how dirty. It's still people's home.

Del Quentin Wilber

Evidence from mobile devices has provided critical help in solving crimes ranging from homicides to drug trafficking.