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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Eliot, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

12.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

13.

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

Lerner, Max

14.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

15.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

16.

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

Mae West

17.

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

Buddha

18.

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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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

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

21.

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

Aristotle

22.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

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

Masters, Brian

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

Voltaire

25.

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

Hesiod

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

28.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Evil spelled backward is live.

30.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

32.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

35.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Ayn Rand

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

Carlin, George

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

Maistre, Joseph De

44.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

46.

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

Plato

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