Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bischer

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Bellow, Saul

Evil spelled backward is live.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Voltaire

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

James, William

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Horton, Doug

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Plato

22.

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

Socrates

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

Hesiod

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Buddha

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

Hesiod

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

31.

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

Hood, Thomas

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

West, Mae

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Phaedrus

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Proverb

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

Homer

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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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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 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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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