Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil draws men together.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

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.

Eliot, T. S.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

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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

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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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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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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.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

West, Mae

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bischer

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

Plato

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.