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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

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

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.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

10.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Voltaire

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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.

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Plato

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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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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Weber, C. J.

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Mae West

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