Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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• People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Religion
  • Enemy

• I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Done
  • Want
  • Evil

• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Always
  • Evil
  • Will

• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Small
  • Day

• I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Character
  • Evil
  • Come

• My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Evil
  • Silly
  • Research

• Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Powerful
  • Evil
  • Organization

• 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Evil
  • Doing

• I am not an enemy of Adventism.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Enemy
  • Adventism

• Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • True
  • Evil
  • Hypocrite

• As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • Enemy

• The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

  

  Washington Irving
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Natural

• This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Evil
  • Worst
  • Passionate

• In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Religious

• Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Enemy
  • Ability
  • Conflict

• Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

  

  Chuck Klosterman

• A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Time
  • World
  • Morning

• I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimized in the telling of your story and are you found, literally, like you matter, you exist in the telling of your story, but when you hear your story be told, you suddenly exist in community and with others.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • People
  • Community
  • Story

• They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Women
  • Guy

• If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Evil
  • Enemy
  • Shame