Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Ayn Rand

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Mae West

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

Carlin, George

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Hesiod

10.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

11.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

12.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Blaise Pascal

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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

16.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

17.

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

Homer

18.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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.

21.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

22.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

23.

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

Hesiod

24.

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

25.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

27.

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

West, Mae

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

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

Edmund Burke

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

32.

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

Hoffer, Eric

33.

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

34.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

35.

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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Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

37.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

38.

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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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Plato

41.

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

Burroughs, William S.

42.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

47.

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

Buddha

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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

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