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

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Homer

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

Ayn Rand

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

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hesiod

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

West, Mae

10.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

11.

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

King Edward the Third

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

13.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

14.

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

Carlin, George

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, American

18.

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

21.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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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 face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

25.

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

Eliot, George

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

Bible

29.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

32.

Evil spelled backward is live.

33.

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

34.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

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

Proverb

37.

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

Socrates

40.

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

Simone Weil

41.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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