Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Evil

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.

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

Proverb, American

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

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

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

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

Plato

11.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

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

Edmund Burke

14.

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

15.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

16.

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

Weber, C. J.

17.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

19.

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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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

Eliot, George

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

26.

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

Homer

27.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

28.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

29.

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

Hesiod

30.

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

31.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

32.

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

33.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

34.

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

West, Mae

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

King Edward the Third

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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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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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 spelled backward is live.

42.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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

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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

45.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

46.

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

Bible

47.

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.

48.

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Maistre, Joseph De