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

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

Oliver Goldsmith

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

10.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

11.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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

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

Carlin, George

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

Buddha

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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

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

Proverb, American

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Homer

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Eliot, George

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Socrates

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

Phaedrus

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

Masters, Brian

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

Bible

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Mae West