Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Carlin, George

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Lerner, Max

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Mary Renault

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.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

13.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Proverb, American

15.

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

Edmund Burke

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

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

Claudius

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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.

25.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Phaedrus

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

28.

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

Aristotle

29.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Bible

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

32.

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

Carlin, George

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

Hesiod

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

36.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

39.

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

Horton, Doug

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

41.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Plato

43.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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 face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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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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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

50.

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