Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Blaise Pascal

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb, American

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

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Socrates

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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 be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Horton, Doug

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Bischer

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hesiod

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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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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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

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

Mae West

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Evil spelled backward is live.

31.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Proverb

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

39.

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

Hood, Thomas

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

41.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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.

43.

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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 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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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

49.

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

Hesiod