Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Carlin, George

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Lerner, Max

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

Gracian, Baltasar

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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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

12.

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

Hood, Thomas

13.

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.

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

Phaedrus

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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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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

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

Aristotle

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Bischer

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

Claudius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Masters, Brian

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

Ayn Rand

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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.

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

Carlin, George

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

47.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Hesiod