Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Bible

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

King Edward the Third

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

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

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

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

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Hesiod

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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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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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Evil spelled backward is live.

15.

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

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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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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

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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.

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Plato

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Carlin, George

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

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

West, Mae

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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