Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Edmund Burke

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

Hoffer, Eric

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Proverb

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

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

Masters, Brian

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

10.

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

James, William

11.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

12.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Mae West

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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

18.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

19.

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

Plato

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

21.

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

Bible

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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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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

24.

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

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Lerner, Max

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Voltaire

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Claudius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Homer

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

Bible

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Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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.