Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- King Edward the Third

Best Quotes about Evil

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.

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Edmund Burke

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

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Carlin, George

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Buddha

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Plato

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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

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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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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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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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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

Bischer

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lerner, Max

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

Voltaire

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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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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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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

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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