Motivational Quotes

Evil

No evil shall happen to the just.

- Bible

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

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

Bible

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

Hesiod

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

Socrates

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Voltaire

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

Hesiod

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.

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

Hesiod

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

Homer

17.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Masters, Brian

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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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, American

25.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bischer

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Claudius

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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.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

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

Hood, Thomas

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Buddha

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

Phaedrus

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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.

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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