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

Chuck Palahniuk

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

Gore Vidal

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

David Gilmour

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

B. F. Skinner

I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Voltaire

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Cher

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

Bertrand Russell

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Erwin McManus

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

Henry IV

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.