Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb, American

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

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

Weber, C. J.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

11.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

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.

15.

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

Claudius

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

22.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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

24.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

28.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Homer

31.

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

Carlin, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hesiod

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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

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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 that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

40.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

41.

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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.