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

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Voltaire

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

Bischer

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

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

Weber, C. J.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Homer

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

Socrates

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

Hesiod

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

Ayn Rand

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

Buddha

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Phaedrus

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Masters, Brian

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, American

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

Carlin, George

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

Eliot, George

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

King Edward the Third

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

James, William

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

Simone Weil

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Aristotle

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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 obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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

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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