Motivational Quotes

Evil

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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Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Aristotle

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

Proverb, American

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Horton, Doug

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

Buddha

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Homer

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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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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 baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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