Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bellow, Saul

Best Quotes about Evil

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

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

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

King Edward the Third

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

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

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Eliot, George

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Aristotle

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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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.

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlin, George

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

Bible

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

Ayn Rand

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

Homer

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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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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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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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

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

James, William