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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.


Lucretius

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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUS According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
BODHIDHARMA There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convinc...
JUNIUS Word's so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and e...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of man...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most o...
MAX VON SYDOW We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, b...
CESARE PAVESE We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, bu...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind f...
BUDDHA With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
STEVEN WEINBERG This isn't the work of our people, Delilah. It's a corruption of power. The gods are neutral, good a...
KURTIS J. WIEBE In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn
ALAIN DE BOTTON With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good peopl...
STEVEN WEINBERG Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their ...
ST. AUGUSTINE Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and ...
STEVEN WEINBERG Is there any other way than this to describe treachery and disgrace? May evil befall them, for evil ...
SADDAM HUSSEIN Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
HOMER Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison
BUDDHA We should abstain from violence, debauchery, evil deeds, sensual-attachment, hatred, anger and ego.
ATHARVA VEDA Business today consists in persuading crowds.
GERALD STANLEY LEE Business today consists in persuading crowds.
T. S. ELIOT The person who is basically evil by nature will always be averse to virtuous deeds. He is always eng...
SAM VEDA Religion in itself is not evil, just ignorant, superstitious and patronizing, acting upon your relig...
CARL WHITE Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDES For florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) History in the storyteller's hand was a potent force indeed,....
KATE MORTON Religion is for humans only, Animals are not that evil.
IFTIKHAR SHAHID If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than...
DENNIS PRAGER No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; ...
PROTAGORAS They do their evil deeds, and pretend otherwise; but in the Court of the Lord, they shall be bound a...
ATHARVA VEDA Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
SHALOM ROKEACH Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
SHALOM ROKEACH Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
THE BELZER RABBI It was not a trace amount, ... What she had in her was very potent.
RAYMOND KELLY He sees it as a battle between good and evil. He sees it as the evil being the acts of individuals, ...
PETER PACE Stay away from evil deeds and indulge in virtuous ones, surrender totally to the will of God. A man,...
ATHARVA VEDA If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse ...
DENNIS PRAGER Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so ...
BILL O'REILLY If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
MORRIS RAPHAEL COHEN If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good
MORRIS COHEN Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.
MATT BOMER If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any ot...
RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS One should performed his deeds for the benefit of mankind with an unbiased approach because of bias ...
RIG VEDA No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; ...
PROTAGORAS We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship t...
ROBERT WINSTON Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
B. R. HAYDEN I did more than anyone else in persuading the U.S. to get rid of Saddam.
AHMED CHALABI Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian m...
RICHARD MENTOR JOHNSON If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and ...
JOHN CONNOLLY Deeds done with a sense of righteousness do not give an opportunity for sin to breed and consequentl...
RIG VEDA It isn't enough that the bad guy is prevented from doing his bad deeds; he must suffer as much as po...
M.E. THOMAS So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lus...
COLIN COTTERILL I am reminded of the query made about man's inhumanity to man in the concentration camps. The questi...
GLENN MEADE It's going to change our game plan a lot, though. Now we're not going to be as potent in some areas ...
OLIVER DAVIS I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so ...
TZIPI LIVNI That which takes one away from religion (dharma) is bad company (kusang).
DADA BHAGWAN I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) To be honest with you, I think last year it maybe was a little bit more potent in the lineup,
BRANDON BACKE The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been great...
AHMED CHALABI Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and all...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely sp...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule,...
ASHLY LORENZANA I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in p...
M.F. MOONZAJER His good deeds came out. I pointed out in closing argument that that is inconsistent with greed. So ...
HUGH KEEFE Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as ...
JAMES WOODS All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
MARTIN LUTHER Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to
moral rectitude have the slightest n...
RICHARD DAWKINS There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is share...
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ABBY OTTENHOFF The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten,...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary on...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary onl...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts a...
PIETRO MASCAGNI The wicked ones make us better persons for those that deserve our attention. Nothing is really lost ...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS TERTULLIANUS Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
TERTULLIAN As time begins to pass, I have come to find that what I thought was, wasn't what I thought was so.
ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR Satan did nothing evil to Christ. He never even got close because if Jesus was indeed the light, the...
MARCO OSCAR OZ Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things...
STEVEN WEINBERG So early [on] I was a knucklehead just like everybody else. Fresh out of high school, doing the dast...
ANDRE BENJAMIN If patriotism is "the last refuge of a scoundrel," it is not merely because evil deeds may be perfor...
RALPH B. PERRY To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is pa...
PLUTARCH There has to be a lot of persuading to get a large number of institutional holders to back their sla...
ROY SMITH It took some persuading. The first year, he talked about it. Then he decided to come out and give it...
JORDAN BEAVER The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No one can destroy a man than his deeds.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A lady's verily is as potent as a lord's
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
ROBERT GREENE I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bri...
MARK TWAIN There is evil in everyone. The first step toward loving someone else is to recognize that evil in yo...
VERONICA ROTH He dislikes even to touch these things, for they are the runes of an idiotic but nevertheless potent...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
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