Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Edmund Burke

Best Quotes about Evil

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

James, William

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Aristotle

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

Hesiod

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

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

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

Crowley, Aleister

11.

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

West, Mae

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Eliot, George

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

Buddha

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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

Horton, Doug

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Hesiod

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

Bible

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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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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Carlin, George

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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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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

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