| Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. Mahatma Gandhi Evil |
| More from Mahatma Gandhi |
| The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large. Mahatma Gandhi |
| "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." Mahatma Gandhi |
| Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. Mahatma Gandhi |
| The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi |
| "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi |
| To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith. Mahatma Gandhi |
| "I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech." Mahatma Gandhi |
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| "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." Mahatma Gandhi |
| "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." Mahatma Gandhi |
| More in the Evil category |
| [There is] a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. Hannah Arendt Evil |
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return. W. H. Auden Evil |
| For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and Sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced. Francis Bacon Evil |
| [Bacon was referring to Jesus’s words to the Apostles in Matthew 10:16: “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”] Francis Bacon Evil |
| ...He made no complaint whatsoever about the bad reputation he had attracted throughout the world, assured me that he himself was the person most concerned by the destruction of superstition, and admitted to me that as far as his own power was concerned he had been afraid on only one occasion, which was when he had heard a preacher, more subtle than his colleagues, shout out from the pulpit: 'Dearly beloved, never forget, when you hear anyone vaunt the progress of enlightenment, that the Devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist!' Charles Baudelaire Evil |
| The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even-if you will-eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. Joseph Brodsky Evil |
| The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. Heywood Hale Broun Evil |
| "It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." Buddha Evil |
| "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Edmund Burke Evil |
| possible source for the famous quotation attributed to Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." See also Plato's quotation in topic 'apathy' Edmund Burke Evil |
