Best evil & done Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind. Serve Bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, remove faecal matter. Do not revenge, resist not evil, return good for evil, bear insult and injury. Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.”

Giving Heart Children Matter Done Evil Forget Return Bears Giving Up Hatred Revenge Insult Injury Remove Vegetables Sugar Salt Inferiors Spices Kindles Rogues

Author:Sivananda

“The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.”

Men Needs Wells Done Evil Voice White Clear Cutting Quiet Office Raises Moved Paint Cheeks Smooth Collars Dickens Dens Fingernails White Collar Quiet Man

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.”

“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.”

People Done Religion Evil Notion Possessed Petty Confined Constraints Piety

Author:A. Powell Davies

“The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.”

Self Done Evil Break Stones Oneself Foolish Crush Diamond Precious Stones

Book:The Dhammapada

Source: The Dhammapada

“An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.”

Men Doe Done Evil Left Deeds Good Deeds Repent Undone

Book:Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha

Source: Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha

“A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil.”

World Has Beens Done America Evil Justice Calling Civilization Missions Our World Tolerate

Author:John Ashcroft

“No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.”

Men Way Made Done Evil Politics Greater Mercy Fellows Good Man

Book:From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 - - v. 2. From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783

Source: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 - - v. 2. From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783

“I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not', and established Goodness and Evil. That's what all religions do, and as soon as we try to replace them, worldly religions like fascism and communism take over.”

Giving Trying Done Law Evil Church Goodness Great Things Instance Communism Fascism Worldly I Am Thankful

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Done Evil Creating Forgiveness Remains Labels Atmosphere Barriers New Beginnings Catalyst Fresh Start Loving Your Enemies

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.”

Art Done Evil Effort Destiny Products

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.”

Ifs Men World Done Suffering Evil Animal Divine Demand Ethics Excellent Pantheism Praiseworthy Evil And Suffering

Book:The World as Will and Representation

Source: The World as Will and Representation

“Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.”

Children Done Care Culture Evil Women Commit Ignorant Remedy Worthless

Book:Character

Source: Character

“I've learned to distinguish between the greatness of God and the inexcusable evil that has been done by those professing his name. And so I do not deduce [as Christopher Hitchens does] that God is not great, and that religion poisons everything. After all, if I failed to distinguish between the genius of Einstein and the abuse of his science to create weapons of mass destruction, I might be tempted to say science is not great, and technology poisons everything.”

“But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.”

Men States Done Evil United Produce Terrible Devotion Exclusive Why Now

Book:Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers

Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers

“I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.”

Knows Done Earth Evil Violence Birth

Book:Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

“No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.”

Men Way May Doe Reason Done Past Desire Evil He Man Regard Notion Punishment Rational Beast Fury Undone Unreasonable Doers Evil Doers Past Wrongs

Author:Plato

“Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.”

Done Suffering Evil Causes Events Spring Flow

Book:Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds

Source: Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds

“If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.”

Ifs Men Done Evil Marble

Author:Charles Sumner

“My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.”

“All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.”

People Knows Book Done Would Be Evil Crime Treats Golden Flaws Promoting Golden Rule

Author:Terry Pratchett

“It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.”

Country Done Enough Evil Citizens Destroyed Factions

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.”

People Way Kind Has Beens Different Done Might Evil Names Individual Common Acting Crime Hatred Convinced Commit Civilized Persecution Humane Common Good

Author:Thomas Merton

“Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.”

Done Evil Grows Wall Conscious Pale Accusation Brass

Author:Horace

“How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]”

Done Evil Bitter Harvest Reap Mali

Author:Plautus

“Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]”

Believe Done Evil Instinct Heed

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.”

May Done Use Lasts Evil Process Pleasure Hell Pieces Habit Eternal Stones Woods This Life Satan Construction Centre Constructs Builder Arches Keystones Firewood

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.”

Done Evil Regret Cures Hereafter Lament

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.”

Ifs May Doe Done Desire Order Evil Injury Degrade

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.”

Knows Done Government Evil Expectations Committed Expected Cruelty Good And Evil Virtuous Destroyers

Book:Collected stories and other writings

Source: Collected stories and other writings

“What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!”

Source: Zoe: The History of Two Lives

“The only good thing we can do, the only goodness we can be sure of, is our own goodness as individuals and the good that we can individually do. As groups we often do evil that good may come and very often the good does not come and all that is left is the evil we have pointlessly done.”

May Doe Done Evil Individual Left Can Do Groups Goodness Good Things Individuality

Author:Marghanita Laski

“The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!”

“While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our moral concepts, they have done so more in the last ten or so years than they had before. I have, therefore, often wondered why there has been so little discussion of goodness. In Search of Goodness is not only an exception: it is an admirable one. It is original and provocative, impressive both in its breadth and depth.”

Years Littles Has Beens Done Lasts Evil Given Attention Moral Ten Goodness Concepts Originals Depth Philosopher Discussion Exception Impressive Admirable Provocative Breadth

Author:Raimond Gaita

“The only boring part of it is finding the fact that got you from point A to point B. Most actors, if they're being honest, are not going to say that that's the most stimulating acting work they've ever done. But the dynamics of staring into the face of evil and it looking back at you, and seeing yourself in that or not, is interesting.”

Ifs Done Facts Faces Evil Actors Interesting Acting Seeing Honest Findings Boring Being Honest Staring Looking Back Dynamics Seeing Yourself

Author:Benjamin McKenzie

“Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?”

Giving Trying Mind Firsts Children Done Order Evil Social Sick Slavery Slave Saint Ministers Avoiding Nobility Social Order Leper

Author:Dorothy Day

“No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.”

World Littles Done Pain Evil Speak Silence Instruments Tongue

Author:Walter Raleigh

“Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.”

Men Years Reason Done Shows Seems Passion Evil Born Loss Resources Pity Former Latter Sole Deliverance

Book:The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

“It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.”

World Done Evil Impossible Theology

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.”

Way Has Beens Done Evil Touched Good Work Ingenious Hamilton

Author:Lord Kelvin

“Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.”

Knows Made Done Whole Culture Evil Huge Return Mad Driven Accurate Luther Scholarship Offence Psychopathic

Author:W. H. Auden

“Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.”

Way Wells Ideas War Matter Done Evil Difficult Religious Theory Argument Killing Ireland Relativity Northern Ireland Theories Of Relativity

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.”

“I've done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it.”

People Thinking Knows Done Home Evil Safe Ultimate I Realized Interviews Over It Invasion

Author:Wes Craven

“If you are remembering evil against someone, then pray for him; and as you remove through prayer the pain of the remembrance of the evil he has done, you will stop the advance of the passion. And when you have attained brotherly love and love for mankind, you will completely cast this passion out of your soul. Then when someone else does evil to you, be affectionate and humble toward him, and treat him kindly, and you will deliver him from this passion.”

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