Motivational Quotes

Evil

There is no bad in good.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Masters, Brian

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

Edmund Burke

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

Carlin, George

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

10.

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

11.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

12.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Blaise Pascal

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Claudius

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

Homer

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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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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

King Edward the Third

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

Lerner, Max

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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 brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

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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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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hesiod

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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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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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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

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

Plato

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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 enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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