Motivational Quotes

Evil

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Cioran, E. M.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Weber, C. J.

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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.

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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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

11.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Maistre, Joseph De

18.

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

Masters, Brian

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Voltaire

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Socrates

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

Plato

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hesiod

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Carlin, George

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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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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

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

Bible

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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