Brigham Young Quotes

If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer."

Brigham Young

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• The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • Death
  • Fear

• I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Done
  • Want
  • Evil

• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Evil
  • Always
  • Will

• I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Character
  • Evil
  • Come

• The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Home
  • Hate
  • 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

• Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Powerful
  • Organization

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

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Man
  • Evil

• Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Love
  • Power
  • Evil

• Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • May
  • Book
  • Society

• 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

• 'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Word
  • Feminist
  • Feminism

• There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • People
  • Want
  • Evil

• At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Evil

• There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Evil
  • Fans
  • Humor

• In New York, we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Evil
  • Eye
  • New

• The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Live
  • Evil
  • Democracy

• Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Feeling

• Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

  

  Burton Malkiel
  • Security
  • Trade
  • Index funds

• Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Nature
  • Reason
  • Sin

• It's not like the average lawyer or doctor is a physical Adonis. But it is amazing how many intelligent, obsessed people are driven in their physical regimen as well.

  

  Jason Winston George
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Intelligent

• If your neighbors talk about you, and you think that they do wrong in speaking evil of you, do not let them know that your ever heard a word, and conduct yourselves as if they always did right, and it will mortify them, and they will say, "We'll not try this game any longer."

  

  Brigham Young
  • Evil
  • Word
  • Neighbors