Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Bible

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

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

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

Bible

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

10.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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.

13.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Socrates

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

Claudius

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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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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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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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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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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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

30.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Baudelaire, Charles

36.

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

Carlin, George

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

Bischer

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

Plato

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

Mae West

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