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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
Evil Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Evil

1.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
King Jr. Martin Luther

2.
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

3.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

4.
The evil that we know is best.
Titus Maccius Plautus

5.
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

6.
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.

7.
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

8.
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

9.
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

10.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal

11.
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.

12.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Curie, Madame Marie

13.
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

14.
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

15.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Darwin, Charles R.

16.
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
Carlyle, Thomas

17.
The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Crowley, Aleister

18.
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
Chapman, Maria Weston

19.
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

20.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke

21.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Cioran, E. M.

22.
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

23.
Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
Corneille, Pierre

25.
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
Ayn Rand

26.
Of two evils, choose neither.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

27.
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
Euripides

28.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Hesiod

29.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Theodore Roosevelt

30.
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

31.
We must as second best...take the least of the evils.
Aristotle

32.
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Lerner, Max

33.
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
Gloria Steinem

34.
Evil brings men together.
Aristotle

35.
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
Donne, John

36.
Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.
Proverb, American

37.
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.
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

39.
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

40.
Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
Horton, Doug

41.
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

42.
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
Maistre, Joseph De

43.
But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
Hood, Thomas

44.
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

45.
Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)
King Edward the Third

46.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Hoffer, Eric

47.
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

48.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato

49.
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.
Bible

50.
Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]
Bible


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