Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

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

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

Hesiod

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

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

West, Mae

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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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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Mary Renault

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

King Edward the Third

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

Aristotle

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

23.

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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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Plato

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

Hood, Thomas

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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 love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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, 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

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Ayn Rand

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

Hesiod

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

Claudius

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

Carlin, George

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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 face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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

James, William

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

Horton, Doug

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

Phaedrus

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

Masters, Brian

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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 spelled backward is live.

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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