Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Phaedrus

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

Proverb, American

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Buddha

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Masters, Brian

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Mae West

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Carlin, George

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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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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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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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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle