Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil brings men together.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

10.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

11.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

12.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

13.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

14.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

19.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

20.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

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Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

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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.

Milton, John

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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.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

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We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

28.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

29.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

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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.

Erasmus, Desiderius

31.

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

32.

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.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

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Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

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The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

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What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.