David Davis Quotes

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.

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• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Teach

• Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Evil

• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Great
  • God
  • Soul

• I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Fun
  • Community
  • Evil

• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Evil
  • Silly
  • Research

• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Think
  • Evil
  • Choose

• A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Man
  • Evil

• We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Blessing

• God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Nature

• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Evil
  • Doing

• If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Children
  • Parents

• I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Violence

• Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Evil

• Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Art
  • Evil
  • Effort

• Seduction is the world’s elementary dynamic… All this has changed significantly for us, at least in appearance. For what has happened to good and evil? Seduction hurls them against one another, and unites them beyond meaning, in a paroxysm sudden outbreak of emotion of intensity and charm. (p. 59)

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts happen. Take responsibility for yourself each step of the way. Trust the new shape and form of your world

  

  Melody Beattie
  • Responsibility
  • Moving
  • Natural

• This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Work
  • Women
  • Smoke

• If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.

  

  David Davis
  • Evil