Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Baudelaire, Charles

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Eliot, George

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

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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

Plato

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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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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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Hesiod

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Aristotle

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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Mae West

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.