Motivational Quotes

Evil

There is no bad in good.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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

Bischer

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

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

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hesiod

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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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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

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

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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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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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

Carlin, George

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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 has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Mary Renault

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But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Mae West

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

Chapman, Maria Weston