Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Phaedrus

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

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

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

Aristotle

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Buddha

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

Socrates

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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, 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

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

Claudius

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

Simone Weil

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Masters, Brian

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

32.

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

King Edward the Third

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bischer

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

Voltaire

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Hesiod

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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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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