Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Cioran, E. M.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Auden, W. H.

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The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

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

Mae West

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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

Carlin, George

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

West, Mae

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

Socrates

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

Edmund Burke

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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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

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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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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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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

King Edward the Third

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mary Renault

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

Ayn Rand

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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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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

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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.

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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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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George