#evil

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#consider #evil #generally #inventors #people

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christianity #crude #decent #decent people #devils

What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#become #been #best #done #evil

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#concern #either #evil #gods #good

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#anger #delusion #evils #greed #ignorant

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#blessings #deeds #evil #good #good deeds

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#awareness #body #buddha #either #evil

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#deed #evil #foresee #fruit #gods

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#anything #because #dangerous #dangerous place #evil

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good? ↗

— Boethius

#cometh #evils #god #good #many