Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Hesiod

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Ayn Rand

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

King Edward the Third

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

Claudius

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

Lerner, Max

12.

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

Masters, Brian

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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

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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 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

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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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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

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

Hood, Thomas

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Blaise Pascal

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hesiod

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Bischer

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

Crowley, Aleister

41.

Evelyn Underhill

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

Homer

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil