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“The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.”

World Evil Thousand Add Killing Remove Doers Mean People Evil Doers

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.”

Needs Should Book Awareness Unique Sacred Library Humble Believer Faithful Librarian Doers

Book:Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell

Source: Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell

“The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.”

Enough Beautiful Artist Turns Advantage Deeds Criminals Doers

Book:The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche

“Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.”

Real Action Concepts Rewards Arise Compassionate Anticipation Doers

Author:Brad Warner

“Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence”

Action Prayer Existence Silence Compassion Breaths Aim Infinity Doers Silence Love

Book:Celebrating Silence

Source: Celebrating Silence

“To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.”

Men Kind Ends Form Evil Process Black Machines Doers Output Dehumanization Evil Doers

Author:Steven Biko

“By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”

Men Way Humans Would Be Process Natural Evolution Treats Historical Instance Developing Unconscious Contrast Better Ways Surveys Doers

Author:Owen Barfield

“There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.”

Book:The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.”

Soul Simple Lays Folks Deeds Motive Prize Doers Discounts

Author:John Barth

“The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.”

Feels Persons Law Chance Citizens Healthy Guilt Guilty Abiding Miscellaneous Doers Law Abiding Citizen

Author:Albert Ellis

“Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.”

Feels Sometimes Happens Certain Actors Comfortable Dancer Performers Doers Resonance Implied

Author:Willem Dafoe

“The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.”

Source: God Talks With Arjuna

“The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.”

Light Politics Failing Thinker Creeds Doers Allowance

Author:Jethro Tull