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

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

Aristotle

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

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

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Proverb, American

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horton, Doug

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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Evil spelled backward is live.

20.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

King Edward the Third

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

Bischer

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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

25.

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

Masters, Brian

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

Plato

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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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 love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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 face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Homer

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.