Quote by Martin Luther King Jr

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.”

— Veronica Roth

“The avoidance of little evils, little sins, little inconsistencies, little weaknesses, little follies, little indiscretions and imprudences, little foibles, little indulgences of self and…

— Horatius Bonar

“In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind: Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil Are…

— William Shakespeare

A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If…

— Symeon the New Theologian

“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is…

— Anonymous

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

— Franz Kafka

“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural…

— Alija Izetbegović

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,…

— Bible

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless…

— Zoroaster

“Let him consider how all want of love, all indifference to the needs, the feelings, the weakness of others; all sharp and hasty judgments…

— Andrew Murray

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up…

— Lord Byron