Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Evil

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Claudius

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 evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bible

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

Aristotle

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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 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 draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Homer

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

Carlin, George

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Bischer

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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 obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mary Renault

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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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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Hesiod

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

King Edward the Third

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

Masters, Brian

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

Phaedrus

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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They that know no evil will suspect none.