#evil

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#art #attraction #because #being #brought

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#good #good things #got #necessary #necessary 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