Motivational Quotes

Evil

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.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Cioran, E. M.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

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

Buddha

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

Crowley, Aleister

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Voltaire

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

Lerner, Max

10.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

11.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

12.

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

Phaedrus

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

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

Horton, Doug

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hesiod

24.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

25.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

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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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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

30.

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

31.

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

Weber, C. J.

32.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Homer

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

36.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Oliver Goldsmith

39.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

40.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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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

42.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

43.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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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

45.

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

Mae West

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

Edmund Burke

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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

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

Bible