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

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

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

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

Phaedrus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

King Edward the Third

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

Bible

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

Edmund Burke

11.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

12.

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

Weber, C. J.

13.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

14.

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

15.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

16.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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.

18.

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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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

20.

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

21.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

22.

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

Ayn Rand

23.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

24.

Evil spelled backward is live.

25.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

26.

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

Lerner, Max

27.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

30.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

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

Horton, Doug

33.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

34.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

35.

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

Aristotle

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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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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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

40.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

41.

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

42.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

43.

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

Bischer

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Buddha

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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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I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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