Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

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

Aristotle

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

Phaedrus

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Masters, Brian

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Baudelaire, Charles

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

10.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Carlin, George

14.

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

Mary Renault

15.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Mae West

17.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

18.

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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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

20.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

21.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

22.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

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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 face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

25.

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

Crowley, Aleister

26.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

27.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

28.

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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

Bellow, Saul

34.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

35.

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

Eliot, George

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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

39.

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

Plato

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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

42.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

44.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

45.

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

Claudius

46.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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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Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

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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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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