Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Hesiod

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Proverb

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

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Buddha

10.

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

11.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

12.

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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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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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Edmund Burke

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Socrates

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

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

Homer

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

Plato

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

30.

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.

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

Carlin, George

33.

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

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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

Ayn Rand

40.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

41.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Voltaire

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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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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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