Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Weber, C. J.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

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

Masters, Brian

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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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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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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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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

King Edward the Third

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Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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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The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Homer

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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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 man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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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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