Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bischer

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Bible

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

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Burroughs, William S.

10.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Auden, W. H.

12.

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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 man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Hesiod

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Phaedrus

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

Bible

26.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

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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, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Proverb, American

31.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Plato

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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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

43.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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

Crowley, Aleister

50.

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

Buddha