Motivational Quotes

Evil

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.

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Ayn Rand

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

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.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Edmund Burke

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

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

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

Auden, W. H.

10.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Evil spelled backward is live.

12.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Buddha

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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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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

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

West, Mae

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

Socrates

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Bible

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Eliot, George

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Claudius

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Voltaire

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Plato