Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Plato

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

Bible

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

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

Hood, Thomas

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Horton, Doug

10.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

11.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

12.

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

Weber, C. J.

13.

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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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

15.

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

16.

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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

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

Socrates

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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

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

West, Mae

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

24.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

King Edward the Third

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Haydon, Benjamin

29.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Simone Weil

31.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

32.

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

Edmund Burke

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

Proverb

34.

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

Buddha

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

39.

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

Bellow, Saul

40.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

41.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

42.

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

Masters, Brian

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

Aurelius, Marcus

45.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

46.

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

Voltaire

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Proverb, American

49.

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

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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti