Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Hesiod

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

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

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Claudius

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

Mary Renault

10.

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

11.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

14.

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

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

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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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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

23.

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

Blaise Pascal

24.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

25.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

26.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

29.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

30.

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

31.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

32.

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

Edmund Burke

33.

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

Weber, C. J.

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

39.

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

Carlin, George

40.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

41.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

42.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

43.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Auden, W. H.

45.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

46.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

47.

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

Plato

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

Hoffer, Eric