Motivational Quotes

Evil

The love of evil is the root of all money.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Eliot, George

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bischer

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Aristotle

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Proverb, American

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

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

Weber, C. J.

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Lerner, Max

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Mary Renault

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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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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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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

Phaedrus

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