Motivational Quotes

Evil

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

- Chapman, Maria Weston

Best Quotes about Evil

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

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

Cioran, E. M.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Mae West

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

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

Bellow, Saul

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

10.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

11.

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

12.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

14.

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

15.

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

Voltaire

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hesiod

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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Simone Weil

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

Proverb, American

29.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

30.

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

West, Mae

31.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

32.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Phaedrus

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

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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.