Motivational Quotes

Evil

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Plato

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Bible

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

Horton, Doug

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

Aristotle

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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

Masters, Brian

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

Carlin, George

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Socrates