Speak No Evil Quotes

• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

  Oscar Wilde

  Party, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

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• Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.

  Amit Abraham

  Evil, Speak

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• Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.

  Laozi

  Feel Good, Party Hard, Evil

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• It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Pain, Bystanders, Desire

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.7, Basic Books

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• Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

  George Washington

  Truth, Honesty, Men

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• Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Thee, Deserve, Evil

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• As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.

  Tad Williams

  Would Be, Want, Monkeys

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• Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  May, Faults, Thee

  "Hidden Words (No. 44)". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, reference.bahai.org. 1857.

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• October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.

  John Wesley

  Rewards, Our Society, October

  John Wesley, John Emory (1758). “Journals”, p.422

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• We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.

  Cintra Wilson

  Boys, Wife, Lap

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• See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Rohypnol

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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• Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in this land, no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Land, Galadriel

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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