Thomas More Quotes

A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

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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

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

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• 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

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

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • 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

• 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

• Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Needs
  • Through
  • Genre

• 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

• Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

  

  Walter Lang
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Tales

• Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Evil
  • Door
  • Open

• The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil foolish talk about his benefactor, Elijah Muhammad. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death.

  

  Louis Farrakhan
  • Death
  • Die
  • Evil

• That's how we invaded Iraq, through the fear of an 'evil empire,' and it just makes people feel like bulls with the toreadors - you see red, and you charge.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • People
  • Fear
  • Evil

• Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Good
  • Money
  • Energy

• I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Work
  • Money
  • Evil

• There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • Evil
  • Spiritual

• If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

  

  Epicurus
  • God
  • Men
  • 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

• If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.

  

  Ian Macfarlane
  • People
  • Rooms
  • Cabinets

• Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Prison

• Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Painful
  • Effects
  • Cushion

• A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

  

  Thomas More
  • Evil
  • Needs
  • Wells