God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the reaction.
I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine — and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it.
People do evil simply because they do not know.
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
A canter is the cure for all evil.
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.
Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. " -
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.
The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.
With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.
We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him. . . Separation from evil is His principle of unity