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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Hood, Thomas

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

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

Hesiod

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

Phaedrus

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, American

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

Ayn Rand

13.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Carlin, George

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Proverb

20.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

21.

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

Mae West

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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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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Baudelaire, Charles

27.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

King Edward the Third

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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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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.