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

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

Carlin, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.

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

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

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

14.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

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

Homer

16.

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

Bible

17.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

24.

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

Mary Renault

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

Bischer

27.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

28.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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

30.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

32.

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

Burroughs, William S.

33.

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

Lerner, Max

35.

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

Weber, C. J.

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

40.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

41.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

43.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

44.

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

West, Mae

45.

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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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

47.

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

48.

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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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.

50.

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

Aristotle