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

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

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

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

Homer

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

Bible

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

10.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

11.

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

12.

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

Aristotle

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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

17.

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

Hood, Thomas

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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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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.

20.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

21.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

22.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

24.

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

Mae West

25.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Plato

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

Blaise Pascal

29.

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

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

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

Burroughs, William S.

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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

Hesiod

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

Weber, C. J.

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

39.

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

Bischer

40.

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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

42.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

44.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Mary Renault

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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