Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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.

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Voltaire

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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

Eliot, George

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Hesiod

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Lerner, Max

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hood, Thomas

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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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Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

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