Motivational Quotes

Evil

Of two evils, choose neither.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Mae West

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

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

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

Voltaire

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Buddha

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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

17.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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.

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

Hesiod

25.

Evil spelled backward is live.

26.

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

Mary Renault

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

James, William

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

Edmund Burke

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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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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.

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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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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Socrates

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible