Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Haydon, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Weber, C. J.

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

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

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

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

Phaedrus

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.

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

Hesiod

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

Proverb, American

13.

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

Masters, Brian

14.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

15.

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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Plato

19.

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

Lerner, Max

20.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

21.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

22.

Evil spelled backward is live.

23.

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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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

26.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

27.

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

Mae West

28.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

29.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

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.

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Claudius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.