Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

King Edward the Third

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

Aristotle

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

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

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

13.

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

Hood, Thomas

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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

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

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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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Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Claudius

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Socrates

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

Voltaire

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

43.

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

Horton, Doug

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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