Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

- Gloria Steinem

Best Quotes about Evil

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

11.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

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

Plato

18.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Proverb, American

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlin, George

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

Masters, Brian

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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

James, William

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

Aristotle

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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

32.

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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I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lerner, Max

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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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Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

39.

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

Hood, Thomas

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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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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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Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Homer

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

Voltaire

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

Maistre, Joseph De