Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

Best Quotes about Evil

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

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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

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

King Edward the Third

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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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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 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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Phaedrus

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Voltaire

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

Edmund Burke

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

27.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

32.

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

Lerner, Max

33.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, American

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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.

36.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

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

Carlin, George

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

Masters, Brian

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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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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Mae West

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Evil spelled backward is live.

47.

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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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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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil