Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil draws men together.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Homer

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

Auden, W. H.

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 draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lerner, Max

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

Proverb, American

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

King Edward the Third

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

Voltaire

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Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Hesiod

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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.

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Bischer

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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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mary Renault

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Buddha

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

Carlin, George

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Edmund Burke

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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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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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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 be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky