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

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

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

Hesiod

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

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

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

Mae West

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

Masters, Brian

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Evil brings men together.

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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Homer

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Lerner, Max

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Horton, Doug

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

King Edward the Third

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

Phaedrus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Voltaire

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

Hood, Thomas

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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.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Aristotle

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