Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Eliot, George

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

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

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Hesiod

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, American

10.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Mary Renault

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hood, Thomas

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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

17.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

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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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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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.

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

Homer

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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 when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

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

Burroughs, William S.

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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Maistre, Joseph De

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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

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What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

28.

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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Ayn Rand

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb

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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

36.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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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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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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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To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Claudius

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Masters, Brian

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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible