I was praised a lot and condemned more than once for my works, and I came to the conclusion that the measure of the progress of creativity in life should be good, not evil.
Evil comes from human stupidity.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Only laughter can destroy evil without malice.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
On January 31, 1944, I was brought to the Kremlin. There I was cut to pieces and the bloodied parts of my soul were scattered for shame and slaughter in all the gatherings. Everything that was evil, unkind, vengeful, trampled and defiled me. I held on for a year and fell. My heart could not bear the burden of lies and evil.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
The people will not want reading material about the war that is descriptive. The people need him from the inside, in his suffering, in his doubts, in his struggle, renewal, and to show him the way and prospects. The people must be glorified, pacified, and brought up in goodness, because so much evil has befallen their lot in one generation that would be enough for ten generations.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
—Marcus Aurelius
Strive, O my soul, to maintain and keep alive impressions, first, of the constant presence of a holy, omniscient, omnipotent, but infinitely merciful and gracious God, of Christ our almighty shepherd, of the Holy Spirit, of the evil one, and the invisible world in general.
—William Wilberforce
By the grace of God, know thyself. Know and feel that thou wast shapen in wickedness, and in sin did thy mother conceive thee; and that thou thyself hast been heaping sin upon sin, ever since thou couldst discern good from evil.
—John Wesley
I forgive everyone who has harmed me. I don't want to carry evil in my soul.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
If we ourselves are good, we shall excite others to goodness. If we do evil, we shall entice others to do evil also. There is a close connection between doing and teaching.
—George Whitefield
We should admire the love of Christ to men, that he has thus given himself to be the remedy for all their evil, and fountain of all good.
—Jonathan Edwards
During life all has gone well with me, so far as God has ordered matters, and all the evil has been the result of my own follies.
—William Wilberforce
Man’s vocation is to serve God and all people, not to serve some people and do evil to others. Therefore a person who understands his vocation cannot consider himself a member of an individual state.
—Leo Tolstoy
The fool fears and retreats from evil, because he does not know how to overcome it, and the wise man trusts himself, fights evil and defeats it.
—Taras Shevchenko
Strive, O my soul, to maintain and keep alive impressions, first, of the constant presence of a holy, omniscient, omnipotent, but infinitely merciful and gracious God, of Christ our almighty shepherd, of the Holy Spirit, of the evil one, and the invisible world in general.
—William Wilberforce
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
—Plato
We are by our own sin against God plunged into all sorts of evil, and God has provided a remedy for us against every sort of evil, he has left us helpless in no calamity.
—Jonathan Edwards
“Let him be assured that the Father loved him so much as to give his only begotten Son to die that he might live through him, and he must love God and hate evil.”
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.
—Georg Hegel
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’
—Carl Jung
Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil.
—Laozi
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’
—Carl Jung
“Blessed be the name of our gracious God, he knows how to erase the evil and to cleanse the soul through his Holy Spirit’s applying the work of Jesus to us.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The God who can take away the spots from the leopard, and the blackness from the Ethiopian, can also remove the evil lines which now deface the heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“You consider sin a mere trifle, scarcely worth thinking about;
but God regards it as an evil and an accursed thing.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
—Marcus Aurelius
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
Not just Christ, but all the sages of the world—Brahmins, Buddhists, Taoists, and the Greek sages—taught that rational people repay evil with good, not with evil.
—Leo Tolstoy
Most men are not wicked.. They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
—Franz Kafka