Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Ayn Rand

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb

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

Hoffer, Eric

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Carlin, George

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Hesiod

10.

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

Mary Renault

11.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

13.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

Evil spelled backward is live.

16.

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

17.

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

Hesiod

18.

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

Lerner, Max

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

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

Hesiod

22.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Blaise Pascal

24.

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

25.

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

27.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

29.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

30.

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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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

32.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

34.

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

Auden, W. H.

35.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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, 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

38.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

39.

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

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

42.

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

Socrates

43.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

44.

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

Edmund Burke

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