Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.[GK Chesterton] Quote:When I read about the evils of drinking I gave up reading.[Author Unknown] Quote:It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:I don't know what the new Ford will be called. Probably something like the 'Ford Untamed Wilderness Adventure.' In the TV commercials, it will be shown splashing through rivers, charging up rocky mountainsides, swinging on vines, diving off cliffs, racing through the surf, and fighting giant sharks hundreds of feet beneath the ocean surface -- all the daredevil things that cars do in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, where nobody ever drives on an actual world. In fact, the interstate highways in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, having been abandoned by humans, are teeming with deer, squirrels, birds, and other wildlife species that have fled from the forests to avoid being run over by nature-seekers in multi-ton vehicles barreling through the underbrush at 50 miles per hour.[Dave Barry] Quote:Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.[Aristotle] Quote:Lack of money is the root of all evil.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.[Stephen King] Quote:Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.[Thomas Paine] Quote:No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.[Socrates] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Socrates] Quote:True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to an evil power...it is rather a courageous confrontation with evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The devil made me do it the first time, and after that I did it on my own.[Robert Fulghum] Quote:I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island?.to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear ? kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor ? with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.[Plato] Quote:The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.[Plato] Quote:Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.[Plato] Quote:No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.[Plato] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Plato] Quote:The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.[Plato] Quote:Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. [Cato the Elder] Quote:Have I inadvertently said some evil thing? [Sir Philip Sidney] Quote:When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. [Henny Youngman] Quote:All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. [Edmund Burke] Quote:Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. [Evelyn Underhill] Quote:May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say. [Anonymous] Quote:To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam) [Anonymous] Quote:The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. [Cicero] Quote:The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. [Ayn Rand] Quote:The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. [Ayn Rand] Quote:Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. [Heinrich Heine] Quote:I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:We must as second best...take the least of the evils. [Aristotle] Quote:I know indeed what evil I intend to do,<br>but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,<br>fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. [Euripides] Quote:I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. [Sallust] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. [Plato] Definitions of: evilDefinition: Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.Definition: Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like. Definition: Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days. Definition: In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly. |
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