Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Lerner, Max

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

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

Auden, W. H.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

10.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

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

Mae West

12.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

13.

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

Weber, C. J.

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

King Edward the Third

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Masters, Brian

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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.

22.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

West, Mae

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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

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

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

Plato

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

Hesiod

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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

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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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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.