Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- King Edward the Third

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Haydon, Benjamin

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Evil spelled backward is live.

10.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

11.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Socrates

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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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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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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 be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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

Carlin, George

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

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

Bible

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

Phaedrus

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Plato

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

Bible

38.

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

Buddha

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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 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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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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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Maistre, Joseph De