Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Plato

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Socrates

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

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

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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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

11.

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

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

Hesiod

13.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

14.

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.

15.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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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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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

21.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

22.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

23.

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

24.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

25.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

29.

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

Bellow, Saul

30.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Auden, W. H.

34.

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

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

Claudius

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Lerner, Max

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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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

46.

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

Voltaire

47.

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

Carlin, George

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