Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Voltaire

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

Hesiod

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, American

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

16.

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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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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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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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Bible

22.

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

James, William

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Hesiod

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

30.

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

Edmund Burke

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

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

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bischer

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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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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

46.

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Aristotle

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