Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Aristotle

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

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

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

Hesiod

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

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Proverb

15.

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

Bible

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

Phaedrus

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Socrates

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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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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

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

Masters, Brian

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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Mae West

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

Claudius

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

40.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

41.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Evil brings men together.