Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Evil

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hesiod

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

Mary Renault

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

Homer

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

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

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hood, Thomas

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Hesiod

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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 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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Bible

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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

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

Claudius

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Hesiod

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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mae West

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

Voltaire

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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

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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American