John Milton Quotes

That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

John Milton

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

  

  Saint Basil
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Teach

• When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy

• 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

• Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.

  

  K. Flay
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Real

• 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

• Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Space
  • Acting
  • Places

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

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Space
  • Go
  • Scientist

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

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Character
  • Evil
  • Come

• 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

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

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Man
  • Evil

• I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Space
  • Ship
  • Captain

• If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Evil

• 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

• While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men
  • Children
  • Evil

• I love sci-fi. Growing up, I was a big fan of the 'Alien' series, 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,' etcetera. Plus, anything apocalyptic - 'I Am Legend,' '1984,' 'Battlestar Galactica.'

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Growing
  • Know
  • Space

• 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

• My desire is to bring astronomical events and objects down into your personal, lived-in space.

  

  James Turrell
  • Desire
  • Space

• Leithen's story had bored and puzzled me at the start, but now it had somehow gripped my fancy. Space a domain of endless corridors and Presences moving in them! The world was not quite the same as an hour ago. It was the hour, as the French say, 'between dog and wolf,' when the mind is disposed to marvels.

  

  John Buchan
  • World
  • Mind
  • Space

• There is a higher law than the Constitution.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Higher

• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Heart

• That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

  

  John Milton
  • Space
  • Evil
  • Form