Evil Quotes - Page 155

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.

Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.

Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.