Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Evil

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

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

Masters, Brian

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

Homer

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

Plato

10.

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

11.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

13.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

16.

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.

17.

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

Voltaire

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

Burroughs, William S.

19.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

20.

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

Hesiod

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

James, William

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

Carlin, George

24.

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

Lerner, Max

25.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

27.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

28.

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

Claudius

31.

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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

33.

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

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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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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hesiod

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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.

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.