Shana Alexander Quotes

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

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• 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

• Initially, when I joined Twitter, I was active. But, later, I felt that whatever I was tweeting or saying on a social platform turned out to be a little boring.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Social
  • Saying
  • Boring

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• 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 was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Natural
  • Objects
  • Physical

• There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Universe
  • Evil
  • Ignore

• I'm not a natural joiner.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Natural

• The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Dark

• Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Security
  • Social
  • Debt

• I'd like to be involved in 'SNL' somehow. I mean, being a permanent cast member is a stretch! That's pretty damned hard, but to host it one day would be a dream come true. And I would like to play the DC Comics villain Harley Quinn.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Change
  • Social
  • Medicine

• With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • War
  • True
  • Help

• I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Evil

• If we did but know how we rush into one evil while seeking to avoid another, we should have no resolution to shun any thing.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Evil

• Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

  

  Kato Kaelin
  • Money
  • Evil

• It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possess neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth and can be radical.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Evil
  • Dimension
  • Banality

• How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be 'American' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

  

  Edith Wharton
  • American
  • Discipline

• Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Evil
  • Natural
  • Social