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

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Masters, Brian

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Claudius

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

Maistre, Joseph De

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Buddha

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Plato

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

Aristotle

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Phaedrus

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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, 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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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 must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

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

Mae West

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Hesiod

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

Horton, Doug

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.