Motivational Quotes

Evil

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Evil

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

Buddha

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

West, Mae

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

Plato

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

Bischer

11.

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

Horton, Doug

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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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By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Socrates

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

33.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Phaedrus

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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 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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Proverb, American

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

Homer

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