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 end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Aristotle

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

Hesiod

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

Hesiod

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

Bellow, Saul

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

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

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To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Claudius

11.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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

Ayn Rand

14.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

15.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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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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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

21.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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

23.

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

24.

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

Mae West

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Homer

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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 enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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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Evil spelled backward is live.

39.

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

Carlin, George

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Bible

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Crowley, Aleister

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