Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Eliot, George

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

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

Proverb, American

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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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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.

Martin, Tony

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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 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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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Carlin, George

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Mae West

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Ayn Rand

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

Hood, Thomas

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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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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Plato

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

Masters, Brian

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

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