Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Proverb, American

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

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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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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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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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

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

Claudius

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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

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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.

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Carlin, George

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

Proverb

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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

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

Hesiod

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

Edmund Burke

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hesiod

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