#evil

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#before #enough #evil #give #i

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#constantly #evil #evils #lesser #still

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. ↗

— Mary Garden

#being #buildings #children #evil #hence

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#brave man #dares #devil #face #him

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

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