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Evil Quotes by Swami Vivekananda
- Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy,…
- "Why should I become angry just because another man has made a fool of himself. Do thou resist not evil!" That is what the lovers…
- What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for…
- Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our…
- No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in…
- The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or…
- This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe…
- The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I…
- Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our…
- Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is…
- Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.
- Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are…
- It is clear to us that, for good or for evil, our vitality is concentrated in our religion. You cannot change it. You cannot destroy…
- You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as…
- The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.
- In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because…
- This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the…
- It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and…
- Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.
- Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.
- Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.
- The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship through love. Whether…
- Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of…
- You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands…
- We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in…
More Evil Quotes
- 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