Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

- Edward II

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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

West, Mae

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Evil spelled backward is live.

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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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Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

Hood, Thomas

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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Crowley, Aleister

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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

Masters, Brian

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hesiod

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Horton, Doug

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

Carlin, George

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

King Edward the Third

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

Bischer

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

Blaise Pascal

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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.

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Claudius

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

Homer