Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

King Edward the Third

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

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

Buddha

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hesiod

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

14.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Ayn Rand

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

Bischer

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

Hood, Thomas

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Curie, Madame Marie

24.

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

Masters, Brian

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Claudius

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Evil spelled backward is live.

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Aristotle

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Socrates

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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 shall happen to the just.

Bible

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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.