Rajneesh Quotes

As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.