Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Voltaire

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

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Horton, Doug

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Crowley, Aleister

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Plato

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

Bible

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Aristotle

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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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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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

Edmund Burke

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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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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

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Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Proverb, American

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Eliot, George

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Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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