Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

Mary Renault

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

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.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

10.

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

Claudius

11.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

13.

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

Auden, W. H.

14.

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

Homer

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

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

19.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

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

Proverb

22.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

23.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

24.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

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

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

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

Bellow, Saul

30.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

31.

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

Weber, C. J.

32.

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

Bischer

33.

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

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Phaedrus

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

37.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

40.

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Proverb, American

44.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

45.

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

James, William

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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 chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Edmund Burke