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Evil Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking…
- War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.
- Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the…
- A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.
- Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no…
- What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether…
- For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back…
- Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the…
- A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
- Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
- Non-cooperatio n with evil is a sacred duty.
- We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any…
- As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.
- In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately…
- Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together
- To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good,…
- I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
- I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
- 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.
- Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
- I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If…
- It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are,…
- Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil.…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine