Motivational Quotes

Evil

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

- Thomas a Kempis

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Eliot, George

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Homer

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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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

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Hesiod

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Hesiod

21.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

24.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

25.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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 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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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

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Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

30.

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

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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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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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

38.

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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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 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

41.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Buddha

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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

44.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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.

48.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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