Best evil & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.”

“For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.”

Art Form Evil Fun

Author:Gregory Maguire

“There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.”

Men States Form Evil Religious Sin Attitude Perfection Absolutes Bounds Absence Kingdoms Anarchy Sovereignty Kingdom Of God Anarchism Absolute Truth Absolutism Religious Truth

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”

Faces Form Evil Silent

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.”

Thinking Feels Trying Mind May Ideas States Seems Form Evil Force Effects Masters Adversity Developing Bad Ideas Undesirable

Book:Your Forces and How to Use Them

Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.”

Ifs Mean Real Self Shows Form Desire Evil Humility Worship Delusion Reverence Wipe Harbors Good Thoughts Humbling Real Self

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery.”

Form Evil Animal Violence Innocent Savagery

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.”

Men Wells Looks May Form Artist Evil Love Is Tragedy Cures Well Being Wholeness Clay Surgeons Claws God Is Love Obstinacy

Author:Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”

Use Form Political Evil Politics Wealth Money Needed Capitalism Wise Money Good Against Evil Inspirational Money Need Money Money Is The Root Of All Evil Spiritual Wealth Money Is Evil

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to take a literary theory course, you might think it would be about literature, but it's really not. It's about all the various forms of oppression on earth and how we can see them playing out in literary works. And behind all these forms of oppression is a guy.”

Ifs Thinking Might Would Be Earth Form Guy Courses Evil Literature Behinds Theory Roots Various Profession Oppression Masculinity Exaggeration Literary Works Literary Theory

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.”

Humans Soul Whole Character Use Form Certain Evil Human Beings Quality Heard Stronger Originals Notes Scales Occasions Tone Good And Evil Appearing Rare Occasion

Author:Fanny Kemble

“Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Faces Form Order Culture Evil Struggle Violence Goodness Opposites Be Good Brutal

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be only the out-growth of our own perverted life; and though we may endeavor to cut them down and extirpate them by means of law, they will only spring up again with fresh luxuriance in some other form, unless the conditions of human life and character are radically improved.”

Humans May Mean Character Form Law Evil Found Social Growth Cutting Conditions Spring Down And Human Life Endeavor Accustomed Social Evils

Book:Self-help

Source: Self-help

“It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.”

Way Form Evil Social Sex Position Addiction Lust Distinction Satisfying Craving Climbers Lust For Power

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.”

“The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.”

Way Important Past Form Evil Shapes Property

Author:Erik Naggum

“The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a private business enterprise for purposes of limiting personal liability, issuing stock, filing financial reports and paying taxes. Other forms include partnerships and sole proprietorships. Are they less evil? You buy your groceries from corporations, your cars, newspapers, cellphones, clothing and exercise equipment. Your parents and children work for corporations. Are they evil?”

“Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in coordinated form-that is, in combination, so that the average man's holding could be put to useful purpose in company with the holdings of a great number of other men of his own sort, the new evils would not have arisen.”

Men Use Wisdom Form Purpose Evil Politics Left Numbers Company Economy Institutions Property Average Combination Liberalism Reformation Energetic Average Man

Book:The Crisis Of Civilization

Source: The Crisis Of Civilization

“When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.”

Country Government Running Form Values Evil Sides Born Loss Safe Reasonable Good And Evil Submit Compounds Forms Of Government Partiality

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution; its agitation revives the fiercest passions for good and for evil that inflame the human breast.”

Humans Problem Age Form Passion Evil Human Beings Millions Solutions Assuming Breasts Revive Agitation Life Or Death

Author:Emma Lazarus

“Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.”

Form Evil Universal Schemes

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.”

Men Giving Doe Form Evil Social Birth Eternal Approach Fellows Injustice Inequality Communism Exploitation Traveler Social Injustice Fellow Travelers

Author:Alexander Zinoviev

“The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all evil, the presence and enjoyment of all good, and this good enduring to eternity, never more to be taken from us, never more to be in any, the least degree, diminished, but forever increasing, these are the wreaths which form the contexture of that crown held forth to our hopes.”

Hands Form Evil Hope Heaven Pleasure Forever Taken Honor Degrees Eternity Endure Riches Absence Enjoyment Crowns Wreaths

Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne

“It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.”

Needs Mean Persons Long Might Action Form Evil Results Moral Trump Europe Simplicity Priorities Appeals Assumption Dimensions Aesthetic Efficiency Assessment Evaluation Good Evil Assessing

Author:Raymond Geuss

“There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.”

World Moving Form Evil Class Progress Deny Circles Thinker

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.”

Source: The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases

“Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.”

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.”

“...evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms”

May Light Might Form Evil Force Civilization Succeed Chemicals Dozen

Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.”

Form Evil Worry Disease Originals Add Complaints

Book:The William James Reader

Source: The William James Reader

“One reason why so many people are unhappy, not knowing why, is that they have burdened their minds with resentments. These evil thoughts pile right on top of happier and generous ones and smother them so that they never get expression. Resentments are a form of hate.... What a dearth of good will and co-operation there are among human beings and nations! What a world this would be if we all worked together, and as a popular diplomat recently expressed it-played together!”

“All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.”

Two Government Able Form Evil Democracy Monarchy Sounder

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.”

“I belive power can be used for good, I don't think every form of power is absolute evil. I wish I would have stepped in, and I really regret it. And that's why I really encourage young people who are organizing to speak up.”

People Thinking Form Young Used Evil Speak Wish Regret Absolutes Belive

Author:Kathleen Hanna

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