Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hesiod

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Hesiod

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

10.

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

Cioran, E. M.

11.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hesiod

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

Voltaire

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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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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

18.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Eliot, George

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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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

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

Proverb, American

25.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Lerner, Max

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

Aristotle

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Plato

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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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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

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

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

Claudius

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

Mae West

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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