Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

Evil spelled backward is live.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

King Edward the Third

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

James, William

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

12.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

13.

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

14.

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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

16.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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 no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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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

20.

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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Horton, Doug

24.

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

25.

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

Mae West

26.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Voltaire

30.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

31.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

34.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

38.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

39.

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

Weber, C. J.

40.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

41.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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