Villanies Quotes & Sayings

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not. — Alfred Nobel

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade. — John Wesley

I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world. — Jane Fonda

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect. — Plato

An evolutionary biologist and a fundamentalist may see the same chimpanzee sitting in a cage, but in another important way, they do not. And they may approach the details of their lives in very different ways. — Peg O'Connor

So I think it's completely realistic and rational to work within structures to which you are opposed, because by doing so you can help to move to a situation where then you can challenge those structures. — Noam Chomsky

At Gethsemane: Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires. — Timothy Keller

The Roman envoys replied that they would go where their own generals led them, not where bidden by their enemies. — Livy

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. — Barbara Brown Taylor