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

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

Bischer

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Socrates

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

Bible

12.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

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

Homer

14.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

15.

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

16.

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

Carlin, George

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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

18.

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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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

20.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

21.

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

Horton, Doug

22.

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

Bellow, Saul

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

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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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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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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

28.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

31.

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

West, Mae

32.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

33.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

39.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

40.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

James, William

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]