Motivational Quotes

Evil

The end excuses any evil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hood, Thomas

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hesiod

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Mae West

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Edmund Burke

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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Eliot, George

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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.

38.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Plato

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Aristotle

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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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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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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

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II