Motivational Quotes

Evil

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Evil

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

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

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

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

James, William

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Oliver Goldsmith

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Edmund Burke

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

Carlin, George

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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

King Edward the Third

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hesiod

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

Hesiod

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Plato

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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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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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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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Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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 face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Curie, Madame Marie