Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Hesiod

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

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

West, Mae

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

Masters, Brian

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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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 love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Edmund Burke

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb, American

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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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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Mae West

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Oliver Goldsmith