Evil Quotes - Page 131

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

Under the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded upon the maxim that every citizen is, by nature, a traitor, a libertine, and a scoundrel. In order to dissuade him from his evil-doing the police power is extended until it surpasses anything ever heard of in the oriental monarchies of antiquity.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

Evil is that which one believes of others.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Why is our media quick to find evil in our local police, but tnot in Islamic terror?

I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. The combination of all the tendencies to the good has produced the best; but as there are goods that are incompatible together, this combination and this result can introduce the destruction of some good, and as a result some evil.

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not', and established Goodness and Evil. That's what all religions do, and as soon as we try to replace them, worldly religions like fascism and communism take over.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.

People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in the future. I would give the coming generations a weapon against any resurgence of such evil. My eyewitness account would record the barbarous acts, and also show the way to stop them.