Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Claudius

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Hesiod

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.

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

Socrates

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

Plato

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

West, Mae

10.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

11.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

12.

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

Bischer

13.

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

Hesiod

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

15.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

King Edward the Third

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

21.

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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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Weber, C. J.

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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

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

28.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Mae West

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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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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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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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

Phaedrus

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no bad in good.

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

Hesiod

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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

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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