Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

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

Bellow, Saul

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

10.

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

Plato

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

13.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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

Bischer

16.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

17.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

18.

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

Simone Weil

19.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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

Burroughs, William S.

21.

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

Socrates

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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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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

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

25.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

26.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

27.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

28.

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

Mae West

29.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

30.

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

Masters, Brian

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

34.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

35.

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.

36.

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

Crowley, Aleister

37.

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

Claudius

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

Aristotle

42.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

43.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

45.

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

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

Bible

48.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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