Top 100 No Evil Quotes
#1. A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives you the stomach-ache is quite another.
Rafael Sabatini
#2. Stefanos Metadorakis could make being in love intoxicating -- HEAR NO EVIL
Sue Ward Drake
#3. Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.
Shirley Maclaine
#4. No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Martin Van Buren
#5. History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.
Bob Dole
#6. Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.
Horace
#7. There is no evil. There is no good. There is only life, and the absence of life.
Brodi Ashton
#9. So watch your step, friends. Make sure there's no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God.
Eugene H. Peterson
#10. Without the law commanding good there could be no evil. But the same law makes it possible for the creature to exist. Without the law man would sink into nothingness; the law determines his humanity.
Herman Dooyeweerd
#13. 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
Baha'u'llah
#15. From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
Marcus Aurelius
#17. In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#18. The second search party did say, lo, we are going this way, and the rest of us did say, yea, though you walk through the hallway that was not on the map, you should fear no evil.
Seanan McGuire
#19. If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls.
Spencer W. Kimball
#20. You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.
C.S. Lewis
#21. If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings
this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.
Gautama Buddha
#22. No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
Seneca The Elder
#23. During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'
Al Franken
#24. Curb your speech, restrain your mind, commit no evil deed.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#25. She bade us remember that it was cowardice to succumb to the greatest misfortunes, and that with time and courage there was no evil that could not be remedied.
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve
#26. This Zippo read, 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil.. for I'm the baddest motherfucker in the valley.
Paullina Simons
#27. We need the vision of interbeing - we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of "this" is the well-being of "that," so we have to do things together. Every side is "our side"; there is no evil side.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#28. There is no evil like hatred, and no fortitude like patience.
Shantideva
#29. To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.
Thomas Merton
#30. no evil can overcome wisdom.
Various
#31. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
John Milton
#32. 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
#33. I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley
Alex Garland
#35. There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.
[It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]
Francesco Guicciardini
#36. No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#37. The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'
Confucius
#38. Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
Cotton Mather
#39. No evil ever came from a woman's womb that wasn't placed there first by a man.' ... Tantie Neptune, Lucifer's Key by Charles A. Cornell, due 2013
Charles A. Cornell
#40. There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
Seneca The Younger
#41. No evil can persist, and as to things, Why, nothing is unchangeable.
Lucien Stryk
#42. Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
Orison Swett Marden
#43. I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
George Bernard Shaw
#45. Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires ... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause.
Ayn Rand
#46. The trouble with New Age music is that there's no evil in it.
Brian Eno
#47. The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.
Christopher Paolini
#48. The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.
John Calvin
#49. But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?
Leo Tolstoy
#50. I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.
William Pitt The Younger
#51. To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
Claudius
#52. In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
Miyamoto Musashi
#54. There is no evil as terrible as a woman.
Euripides
#55. To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.
Pope Gregory I
#56. When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.
Arthur Guiterman
#57. Either pain affects the body (which is the body's problem) or it affects the soul. But the soul can choose not to be affected, preserving its own serenity, its own tranquillity. All our decisions, urges, desires, aversions lie within. No evil can touch them.
Marcus Aurelius
#58. I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#59. No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
Samuel Johnson
#60. Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.
Amit Abraham
#62. No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.
A Gentlemen
#63. Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.
Sivananda
#64. They that know no evil will suspect none.
Ben Jonson
#65. There is no evil in sorcery, only in the hearts of men
Merlin
#66. Socrates taught that
No evil could come
To a good man.
How does that help me?
Evan Rhys
#67. I hold no evil in my heart ... This evil does not touch me. More may come, but not this. Not here. Not now.
Diana Gabaldon
#68. There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.
Frederick Lenz
#69. If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be blamed for its existence. No, evil is not a thing but a wrong choice, or the damage done by a wrong choice. Evil is no more a positive thing than blindness is, but it is just as real.
Peter Kreeft
#71. There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.
Seneca The Younger
#72. In the eyes of Buddha, there are no evil people, only people who don't yet have light in their hearts.
Lijia Zhang
#73. The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing.
Margaret Atwood
#74. God is all-powerful. God is perfectly good. Evil exists. If God exists, there would be no evil. Therefore God does not exist.
Epicurus
#75. 9 Because you have made the LORD your o dwelling place - the Most High, who is my c refuge [2] - 10 p no evil shall be allowed to befall you, q no plague come near your tent. 11 r For he will command his s angels concerning you to t guard you in all your ways.
Anonymous
#77. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil ...
King David
#78. Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"
John Ross Macduff
#79. There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.
Michel De Montaigne
#80. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkins
#82. May you fear no evil. ...And may evil fear you.
N.D. Wilson
#83. I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
Leo Tolstoy
#84. Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense - Mr Nobody on the fundamental philosophy of the Brotherhood of DADA
Grant Morrison
#85. Cauldron save you.
Mother hold you.
Pass through the gates, and smell that immortal land of milk and honey.
Fear no evil.
Feel no pain.
Go, and enter eternity.
Sarah J. Maas
#87. Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
Jeremy Bentham
#88. We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move.
Laurens Van Der Post
#89. When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
Gautama Buddha
#90. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. - William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
Cassandra Clare
#91. The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishness, no evil of heart that the cross can't defeat and grace can't transform.
Paul David Tripp
#93. Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
Alexander Von Humboldt
#94. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.2
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#95. There is no evil in the darkness, it's just an absence of light.
Robin Jarvis
#96. Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you'll never be invited to a party.
Oscar Wilde
#97. Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#98. Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.
Margaret Thatcher
#99. Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness,
David Pietrusza
#100. Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
Gautama Buddha
