Motivational Quotes

Evil

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

- Crowley, Aleister

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Buddha

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

Simone Weil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

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

Phaedrus

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

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

10.

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.

11.

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

Horton, Doug

12.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Bible

16.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

19.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

Hesiod

21.

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

Hesiod

22.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

23.

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

Masters, Brian

24.

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

25.

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

Claudius

26.

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

27.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

28.

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

Ayn Rand

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

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

Plato

31.

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

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Eliot, George

36.

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

Mary Renault

37.

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

Bellow, Saul

38.

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

39.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

40.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

41.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

42.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

43.

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

44.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

45.

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

46.

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

Carlin, George

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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

48.

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

Hoffer, Eric

49.

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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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