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

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb

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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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

11.

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

Burroughs, William S.

12.

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

West, Mae

13.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

14.

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

Hoffer, Eric

15.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

16.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

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

James, William

18.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

19.

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.

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Mae West

26.

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

Ayn Rand

27.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

28.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

29.

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

Homer

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

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

Masters, Brian

32.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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 spelled backward is live.

35.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

36.

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Proverb, American

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

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

40.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Eliot, George

43.

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

Bischer

44.

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

Aristotle

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Plato

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