Top 100 Quotes About Evil Deeds
#1. Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
Lucretius
#2. What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.
Saint Augustine
#3. As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
Elizabeth Kostova
#4. People's good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.
William Shakespeare
#5. The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
Tacitus
#6. Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
Lord Byron
#7. It is only those who feel disconnected and seperated from the Oneness of All That Is that can ever commit evil deeds.
Dean Frazer
#8. A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.
Vivian Vande Velde
#9. If God rewards us on earth for good deeds - the Old Testament suggests it's so, and the Puritans certainly believed it - then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.
Stephen King
#10. In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
Gautama Buddha
#11. Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
Demosthenes
#12. If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Aeschylus
#13. If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.
Morihei Ueshiba
#15. There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.
Friedrich Schiller
#16. I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.
Max Von Sydow
#17. Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.
John Piper
#19. Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds
Munia Khan
#20. My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#21. Many grim tales stem from your green lands, and still deeds both noble and evil shall yet unfold there.
Robin Jarvis
#22. We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.
Gautama Buddha
#24. To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.
Plutarch
#25. The old man laughed. Now that I did find unsettling. They always laugh right before they kill you. After the long explanation of their evil deeds and right before they kill you. Always. They must have been too rushed for explanations.
Iain Rowan
#27. On nights such as this, evil deeds are done. And good deeds, of course. But mostly evil, on the whole. On nights such as this, witches are abroad. Well, not actually abroad. They don't like the food and you can't trust the water and the shamans always hog the deckchairs.
Terry Pratchett
#28. Then they'd be wrong. It's only our deeds that make us evil, Tanner; they're what define us, nothing else, not our intentions or feelings. But what are a few bad deeds compared to a life, especially the kinds of lives we can live now?
Alastair Reynolds
#29. If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.
Ralph Barton Perry
#30. The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.
Confucius
#31. Is it possible that I've suffered so that I, together with my evil deeds and sufferings, should be manure for someone's future harmony? I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion, and the murdered man rise up and embrace his murderer.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#32. There is power within great sacrifice, within noble deeds. There are moments ... brief, shining moments when the impossible becomes possible.
Kelly Keaton
#33. Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.
Suzy Kassem
#34. The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
Ben Jonson
#35. Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
Homer
#36. People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.
Terry Eagleton
#37. Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#38. To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
Thiruvalluvar
#40. If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indifference, do something and act against all these unethical instances." ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my novel, If I Could Tell You
Angelica Hopes
#41. Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
James Woods
#42. If you do a good act, it cancels the effects of your evil deeds. If one prays, takes the Name of God and thinks of Him, the effects of evil are cancelled.
Sarada Devi
#43. The judgment: You are now before Yama, King of the Dead. In vain will you try to ... deny or conceal the evil deeds you have done ... the mirror in which Yama seems to read your past is your own memory, and also his judgment is your own. It is you yourself who pronounce your own judgment, ...
Gautama Buddha
#44. You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.
Euripides
#45. According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
Bodhidharma
#46. All are gurus to us, the wicked by their evil deeds say 'do not come near me'. the good are always good, therefore all are like gurus to us.
Ramana Maharshi
#47. It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil ...
L. Frank Baum
#48. Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
Miguel De Cervantes
#49. Such is life, here today, gone tomorrow! Nothing goes with one, except one's merit and demerit; good and evil deeds follow one even after death.
Sarada Devi
#50. Evil deeds and lies - kept hidden - ruin lives. Secrets give evil the power to grow.
Nikki Sex
#51. No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.
Protagoras
#54. You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds
Swami Vivekananda
#56. In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.
Zoroaster
#57. Fools hurt with their words;
the wicked hurt with their deeds.
Evil words are a cancer to world;
evil deeds are a cancer to the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#58. It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. [ ... ] The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.
Ovadia Yosef
#59. Your purpose ... should always be to know ... the whole that was intended to be known.
Maimonides
#60. He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
John R. Rice
#61. Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
George A. Smith
#62. We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#64. This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
Tacitus
#65. Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good ... it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.
Thomas Aquinas
#66. People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.
Susanne Bier
#67. There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#68. Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#70. If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.
Muhammad
#71. So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Lucretius
#72. Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.
Anonymous
#73. God desires his people to be abounding in love and good works. To be people of integrity and honor. People who reflect his character. But we are human - sinful people capable of evil deeds.
Karen Witemeyer
#74. This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.
Friedrich Schiller
#75. The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#76. I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.
John Wycliffe
#77. One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#78. Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
Sholom Rokeach
#79. Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.
Bodhidharma
#80. For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
Edmund Spenser
#82. Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.
Fiona Apple
#83. This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
Neal Shusterman
#84. I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
#85. Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.
Gautama Buddha
#87. Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
John Webster
#88. Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
Orison Swett Marden
#89. When men follow justice the city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase; but for the unjust all nature is hostile, the people waste away from famine, and a whole city may reap the evil fruit of one man's ill deeds.
Christopher Henry Dawson
#90. He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. Cakes of rice are not a snack. I suspect them of evil deeds for this alone.
J.D. Robb
#92. I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.
Eminem
#93. Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#94. Love can literally transform a human being. It can make us do either heroic or evil deeds. It is the best inspiration ever.
Abhijit Naskar
#95. If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you?
K.L. Toth
#97. You will see by this that no man should be judged by another here in this life, for the good or evil he has done. Deeds may be properly judged, whether they are good or bad, but not men.
Clifton Wolters
#98. Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.
Phil Ochs
#99. For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.
T. S. Eliot
#100. The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
Tacitus
