Evil, Crime, Anger, Violence, Death, Afterlife Quotes
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." ~~ Edmund Burke
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"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." ~~ Buddha
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"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph." ~~ Haile Selassie
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"Don't steal. The government hates competition." ~~ Anonymous
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"Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it." ~~ Anonymous
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"We are the people our parents warned us about." ~~ Jimmy Buffett
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"Crime, like disease, is not interesting; it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it." ~~ Anonymous
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"A thief believes everybody steals." ~~ E.W. Howe
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"It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies." ~~ Woody Allen
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"He who angers you conquers you." ~~ Elizabeth Kenny
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." ~~ Marcus Aurelius
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"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love." ~~ George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
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"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." ~~ Chinese Proverb
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"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough."
~~ Bede Jarrett, The House of Gold
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"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end." ~~ William Butler Yeats, W. B. Yeats Memoirs
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“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death.” ~~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” ~~ Anatole France
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“...To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germand secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.” ~~ Tom Robbins
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“We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.” ~~ Plato
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“Dying is like getting out of a car. You leave a shell behind, but you're the same person as ever.” ~~ Pres. Klein
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“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” ~~ Richard Bach
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“If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.” ~~ Albert Camus
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“We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.” ~~ Anatole France
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“He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead." ~~ Anonymous
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"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." ~~ Josef Stalin
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"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." ~~ Albert Pine
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"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live." ~~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born." ~~ Gary Mark Gilmore
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"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea." ~~ Medgar Evers
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"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls." ~~ Epicurus
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"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." ~~ Italian Proverb
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"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." ~~ Gandhi
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"Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemy's dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure?"
~~ J. Bronowski, The Face of Violence
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"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted."
~~ Ellen Glasgow, Letters of Ellen Glasgow
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"For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted."
~~ Frantz Fanos, The Wretched of the Earth
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"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharthis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
~~ Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience
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