Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil draws men together.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Claudius

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

Proverb, American

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

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Buddha

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

Proverb

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

Weber, C. J.

12.

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

Carlin, George

13.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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

Eliot, George

16.

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.

17.

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

Mary Renault

18.

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

Bischer

19.

Evil spelled backward is live.

20.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

21.

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

Phaedrus

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Lerner, Max

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

Hesiod

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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

27.

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.

28.

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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.

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

Plato

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

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

Aristotle

34.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

35.

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

Socrates

38.

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

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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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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

42.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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

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

Bible

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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