Motivational Quotes

Evil

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Hesiod

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

Bible

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

Phaedrus

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Ayn Rand

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

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

10.

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

West, Mae

11.

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

Blaise Pascal

12.

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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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

14.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

15.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

18.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

19.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

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

Carlin, George

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

Aristotle

25.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

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.

27.

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

Hesiod

28.

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

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

King Edward the Third

31.

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

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

34.

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

Mary Renault

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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

37.

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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

39.

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

40.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

41.

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

Bible

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

Cioran, E. M.

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