Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Voltaire

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

Weber, C. J.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Proverb, American

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

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Phaedrus

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

King Edward the Third

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Masters, Brian

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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