Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Mae West

Best Quotes about Evil

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Buddha

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

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hesiod

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 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

10.

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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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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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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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Mary Renault

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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Claudius

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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.

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We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

James, William

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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 be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Lerner, Max

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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

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Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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

Bischer

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My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

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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

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Voltaire

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No evil shall happen to the just.