I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
The best known evil is the most tolerable.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are people who are fast asleep - and sleep has no force. The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people. And one awakened person can awaken the whole world. One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted without losing it's light.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.
There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
Evil then results from imperfection.
It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
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