Evil Quotes - Page 78

As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more in need of application in our time than the virtue of forgiving and forgetting? There are those who would look upon this as a sign of weakness. Is it? I submit that it takes neither strength nor intelligence to brood in anger over wrongs suffered, to go through life with a spirit of vindictiveness, to dissipate one’s abilities in planning retribution. There is no peace in the nursing of a grudge. There is no happiness in living for the day when you can ‘get even.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.

Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

When I get to the Good Place I will continue to fight the Devil even harder.

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.

Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation - this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

Those who don't hate evil hate those who do

I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.

There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.

I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.