Evil Doers Quotes

• Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

  George Santayana

  Friendship, Buddhist, Men

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Dust, Wind, Evil

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Hurt, Men

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• 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

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• My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Evil, World

  "Bush Vows to Rid the World of 'Evil-doers'". edition.cnn.com. September 16, 2001.

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• Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.

  Robert Barr

  Evil, Risk, Use

  Robert Barr (2016). “The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont”, p.15, Oldcastle Books

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• Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Evil, Doers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• More harm is done by fools through foolishness than is done by evil-doers through wickedness.

  Muhammad

  Evil, Done, Wickedness

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• We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in the morning I destroyed all the wicked of the earth, that I might cut off all evil-doers from the city of the Lord' (Ps. 101:8) - that is, the passions of the body and the soul's godless thoughts.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Morning, Passion

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• An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

  Quintilian

  Opportunity, Evil, Want

  "De Institutione Oratoria" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 244-45., 1922.

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• The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

  Max Muller

  Evil, Suffering, Doers

  F. Max Muller (2014). “The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata”, p.7, Routledge

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• No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.

  Plato

  Past, Men, Evil

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Buddhist, Attitude

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• It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and most entertainingly, to "rid the world of evil-doers.

  Arundhati Roy

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.133, Penguin Books India

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• The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Add, World

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Thinking, Long Ago

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• Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Hate, Real, Men

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• For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Roots, People, Evil

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• People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Reality, Axes, People

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Law, Evil, World

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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• So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer.

  Gary L. Francione

  Drinking, Animal, Air

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• To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man only in form. This is the extent to which the process of dehumanization has advanced.

  Steven Biko

  Men, Evil, Black

  "I Write What I Like (We Blacks)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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