Motivational Quotes

Evil

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

- Ayn Rand

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Masters, Brian

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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

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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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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Bible

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

Claudius

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

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

Proverb, American

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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 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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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Buddha

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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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carlin, George

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Proverb