Motivational Quotes

Evil

There is no bad in good.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

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

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

10.

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

James, William

11.

Evil spelled backward is live.

12.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

13.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Mary Renault

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

Edmund Burke

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

Masters, Brian

22.

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 is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Homer

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

Eliot, George

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

West, Mae

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Phaedrus

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

Claudius

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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

Bischer

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Evil brings men together.