Motivational Quotes

Evil

The love of evil is the root of all money.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb, American

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mary Renault

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

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

Lerner, Max

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

10.

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

11.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

12.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

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

14.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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

17.

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

Hesiod

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

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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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

27.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

28.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

30.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

32.

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

33.

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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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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.

37.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

38.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

39.

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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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Weber, C. J.

42.

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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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

45.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

46.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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

Buddha

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

Phaedrus

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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