Motivational Quotes

Evil

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Claudius

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Voltaire

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

Weber, C. J.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Mae West

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

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

Blaise Pascal

12.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

13.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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

15.

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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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.

18.

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

Carlin, George

19.

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

Plato

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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

21.

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

Aristotle

22.

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

West, Mae

23.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

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

Hood, Thomas

25.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

26.

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

27.

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

Lerner, Max

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

Proverb

29.

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.

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Horton, Doug

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

Edmund Burke

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Hesiod

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

39.

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

Phaedrus

40.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

41.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

43.

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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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 spelled backward is live.

46.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

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

Socrates

49.

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

Buddha