Gautama Buddha Quotes About Evil

• Conquer anger by love, evil by good; Conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Liars, Evil

• It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.

  Gautama Buddha

  Animal, Evil, Suffering

• What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Roots, Evil

• Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.

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  Wise, Hurt, Men

• When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.

  Gautama Buddha

  Insults You, Evil, Meditation

• Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Attitude, Thinking

• For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.

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  Karma, Spring, Evil

• Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Pain, Moving

• It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

• By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Self, Evil, Suffering

• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Trust, Pain

• When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Evil, Shame

• If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Ocean, Heart

• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mistake, Good Friend

• Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Men

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

• Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

  Gautama Buddha

  Attitude, Evil, Water

• Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dust, Wind, Evil

• By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Evil

• I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that I will fall heir.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Fall, Evil

• The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to...deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done. ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kings, Memories, Book

• If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Compassion, Evil

• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

• When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.

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  Passion, Heart, Men

• With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Evil

• The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Buddhist, Men

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