Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

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.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Homer

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bellow, Saul

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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Claudius

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

Proverb

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

Horton, Doug

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Bible

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

Socrates

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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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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Proverb, American

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