Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Aristotle

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

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

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

James, William

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.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Simone Weil

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Eliot, George

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Burroughs, William S.

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

19.

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

Homer

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

27.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Claudius

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Socrates

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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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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

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

Bible

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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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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hood, Thomas

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The love of evil is the root of all money.