Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Evil

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

King Edward the Third

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

Burroughs, William S.

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Auden, W. H.

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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

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

Plato

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Crowley, Aleister

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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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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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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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