Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Edmund Burke

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Weber, C. J.

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hesiod

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Bible

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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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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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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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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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Bible

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

Buddha

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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Carlin, George

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

Hesiod

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Masters, Brian

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Aristotle

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

Homer

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