Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

King Edward the Third

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

Bible

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

Horton, Doug

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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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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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 spelled backward is live.

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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

17.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

18.

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

Voltaire

19.

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

Plato

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Burroughs, William S.

27.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

29.

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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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

32.

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

Mae West

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

35.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Homer

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

Claudius

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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They that know no evil will suspect none.