Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Claudius

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Mary Renault

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

Bible

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

11.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plato

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Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Bellow, Saul

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Buddha

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

Eliot, George

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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 man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Edmund Burke

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

Claudius

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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