Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Maistre, Joseph De

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Weber, C. J.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

West, Mae

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

Buddha

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.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Aristotle

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Masters, Brian

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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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

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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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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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 draws men together.

Aristotle

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Claudius

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

Mae West

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

King Edward the Third

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Bischer

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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

Carlin, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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