Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Socrates

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

Homer

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

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

Buddha

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Hesiod

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Hesiod

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

25.

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

Masters, Brian

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

West, Mae

31.

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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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bible

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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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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Horton, Doug

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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Aristotle

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

Phaedrus

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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