Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb, American

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Voltaire

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

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

10.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

11.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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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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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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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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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

19.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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

Mae West

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

Hesiod

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Hesiod

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Buddha

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Claudius

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

Proverb

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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.

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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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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

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Aristotle

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Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

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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

48.

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.

49.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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