Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Evil

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Voltaire

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Proverb, American

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Bischer

11.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Weber, C. J.

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Proverb

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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Hesiod

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Homer

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

King Edward the Third

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Aristotle

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Buddha

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Socrates

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

Masters, Brian

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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

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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