Motivational Quotes

Evil

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Edmund Burke

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Ayn Rand

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

Voltaire

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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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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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

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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

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Buddha

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

Horton, Doug

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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 end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Plato

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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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Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

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

Mae West

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Phaedrus

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Socrates

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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