Evil Quotes - Page 32

• Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

  Francois Rabelais

  Mother, Ignorance

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

  Tacitus

  Office, Deeds, Action

  "Annales" (AD 117), III. 65,

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• We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.

  Richard Rohr

  Fighting, Mirrors, Self

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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• Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By daily courage in non-cooperation with the tyrannical forces of the State and the Church, he helps to tear down present society; the Anarchist by daily cooperation with his fellows in overcoming evil with good-will and solidarity builds toward the anarchistic commonwealth which is formed by voluntary action with the right of secession.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Philosophy, Men, Two

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.199, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Attitude, Punishment, Tolerance

  "A Plea For Intolerance". Essay by Fulton J. Sheen, 1931.

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• Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

  Laozi

  Giving, Tao Te Ching, Disappear

  Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

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• Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.

  Margot Frank

  Friendship, Change, Heart

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• Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

  Matthieu Ricard

  Suffering, Good And Evil, Term

  Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan Thuan (2009). “The Quantum and the Lotus: A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet”, p.19, Broadway Books

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• Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Faces, Accounts

  James Branch Cabell (2012). “Jurgen”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

  William Vickrey

  Mean, Unemployment, Welfare

  William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with a small key to the world of the young. It's a place where good and evil are clearly stamped. It's a place where the better part of human nature triumphs over tragedies, and where innocence rides high. It is a great pleasure to write there, because the young have what the rest of us only envy, and that is a belief in goodness and perpetual hope.

  Rosemary Wells

  Blessed, Writing, Keys

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• Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf!

  Friedrich Kellner

  Book, Gutenberg, Mein Kampf

  Friedrich Kellner (2017). “My Opposition”, p.452, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Friedrich Kellner

  Fighting, Voice, Giving

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• The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There is no such thing. There is a little good and a evil, a little black and a little white. Grey is not an attractive colour, but perhaps it is the one that describes the world most accurately.

  Akif Pirincci

  Black And White, Upset, World

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• Enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil before the worst amongst you are given authority over you and then when even the best of you make dua against them, their duas will not be accepted.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Over You, Dua, Accepted

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• There are moments when I think, Everyone is evil!

  Natalie

  Thinking, Moments

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• Every day is a miracle. No matter how bad my
  circumstances, I have the freedom to choose my
  attitude to life, even to find joy. Evil is not new.
  It is up to us how we deal with both good and bad.
  No one can take this power away from us.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Attitude, Joy, Miracle

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• For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up

  Robert Barclay

  Heart, People, Secret

  Joseph Bancroft, Robert Barclay (1874). “A Persuasive to Unity: Setting Forth the Ground of that Source of Comfort in which Ground of a Clean Heart and a Right Spirit Men May Grow in Good and Firmly Support Each Other as Living Stones in the Temple of God”, p.124

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• It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.

  Yagyu Munenori

  Art, War, Thinking

  "The Japanese Art of War". Book by by Thomas Cleary, 1991.

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• Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship.

  Yagyu Munenori

  Essence, Opponents, Conquer

  "Behold the Second Horseman" by Joseph Lumpkin, (p. 44), 2005.

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• We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. This is true positionally, but it can be made true in our spiritual life only as we yield to the Holy Spirit's control.

  Theodore Epp

  Spiritual, Yield, Desire

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• As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and evil'. Strauss's philosopher-prophet is a secularized version of the same conceit.

  Shadia Drury

  Spiritual, Reality, Law

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• Fools, their wisdom weak,
  are their own enemies
  as they go through life,
  doing evil
  that bears
  bitter fruit.

  Juan Mascaro

  Enemy, Fool, Fruit

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• I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Thinking, Canada, France

  "Jonathan Krohn, 15-Year-Old Conservative, Talks About ‘Extreme Views’ Of Anti-Obama Conservatives". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it

  Anne Bronte

  Stars, Fall, Thinking

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

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