Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. — Ralph Steadman
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail. — Neville Chamberlain
Those who do not confront evil resent those who do. — Dennis Prager
Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse. — Philip Zimbardo
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. — Simon Wiesenthal
The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good. — John Bosco
Active Evil is better than Passive Good. — William Blake
It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing. — Jose Rizal
Evil as well as good, both operate to advance the Great Plan. — Egyptian Proverbs
wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. — Wallace Stegner
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. — Albert Einstein
He who does evil, is never short of an excuse. — Italian Proverbs
I Am Evil Quotes
I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are the virtues of the Guru, who has eradicated evil, and instructed me in virtue. — Guru Gobind Singh
I, God, am in your midst. Whoever knows me can never fall. Not in the heights, nor in the depths, nor in the breadths. For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still. — Hildegard of Bingen
True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought". — Carl Rogers
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley — Alex Garland
To me non-violence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people, and, therefore, I am devoting all my energies towards the establishment of a society that should be based on its principles of truth and peace. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. — Marie Curie
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings...scenes on a canvas...of which I am the witness. — Swami Vivekananda
Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God! — Victor Hugo
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. — Carl Jung
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. — Haile Selassie
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? — Epicurus
Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought....But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts — Fabolous
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesnt' become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
If shaytan has entered into your heart - evil will look beautiful to you and good will seem tiring and exhausting. — Nouman Ali Khan
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country. — Dick Gregory
Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there. — Rem Koolhaas
Fear No Evil Quotes
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve. — Sivananda
The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors. — Christopher Paolini
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil. — Socrates
What madness is it, to be expecting evil before it comes.
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion. — Jim Butcher
I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
... Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for You are with me...
Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. — David
What madness is it, to be expected evil before it comes.
For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. — Socrates
As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing. — Eugene Delacroix
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear. — Buddha
Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives. — Charles Hermite
When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse. — Hannah Arendt
To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love. — Maximus the Confessor
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. — Plato
Be good to others, that will protect you against evil. — Abu Bakr
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower. — George Eliot
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. — Buddha
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty. — Simone Weil
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. — Adlai E. Stevenson
Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other. — Eric Burdon
For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch. — Guru Gobind Singh
When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you. — Buddha
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. — George Santayana
Between two evils I always pick the one I never tried before.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. — Dhammapada
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Buddha
To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced. — Steven Biko
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don't have to avoid evil. They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action. They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God. — Ramakrishna
Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name. — Giacomo Leopardi
My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers. — George W. Bush
More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness. — Muhammad
Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth. — Robert Barr
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity. — Quintilian
Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer. — Mahatma Gandhi
We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in the morning I destroyed all the wicked of the earth, that I might cut off all evil-doers from the city of the Lord' (Ps. 101:8) - that is, the passions of the body and the soul's godless thoughts. — Maximus the Confessor
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers. — Arundhati Roy
Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind. — Buddha
There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer. — Robert Staughton Lynd
People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day. — Mario Van Peebles
The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work. — Max Muller
The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world. — Sayings
As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action. — Veda Upanishads
we're too great a nation to allow the evil-doers to affect our soul and our spirit. — George W. Bush
So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer. — Gary L. Francione
If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls. — Spencer W. Kimball
No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again. — Plato
Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you. — Leo Tolstoy
Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves. — Buddha
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never. — Charles Dickens
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