Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb, American

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

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

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

10.

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

King Edward the Third

11.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

12.

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

13.

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

Lerner, Max

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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

20.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

21.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Plato

26.

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

Mae West

27.

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

28.

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 of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

31.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

32.

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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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

37.

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 evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Masters, Brian

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