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Evil be to him who evil thinks. (Bodhidharma )
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. (Bodhidharma )
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good. (Bodhidharma )
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist. (Bodhidharma )
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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s. (Bodhidharma )
Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. (Bodhidharma )
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it. (Bodhidharma )
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. (Bodhidharma )
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. (Bodhidharma )
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. (Bodhidharma )
But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart! (Bodhidharma )
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual. (Bodhidharma )
They that know no evil will suspect none. (Bodhidharma )
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. (Bodhidharma )
There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. (Bodhidharma )
We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity. (Bodhidharma )
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good. (Bodhidharma )
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. (Bodhidharma )
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil. (Bodhidharma )
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. (Bodhidharma )
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. (Bodhidharma )
Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm. (Bodhidharma )
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. (Bodhidharma )
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself. (Bodhidharma )
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. (Bodhidharma )
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