Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Lerner, Max

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Weber, C. J.

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

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

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Bischer

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

Buddha

10.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

11.

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

Mary Renault

12.

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

Aristotle

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

Claudius

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Hood, Thomas

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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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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Voltaire

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

King Edward the Third

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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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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.

28.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

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

Phaedrus

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

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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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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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.

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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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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 be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Plato

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

Burroughs, William S.

41.

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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The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

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