Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Masters, Brian

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

James, William

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

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

Haydon, Benjamin

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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

Bible

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

Homer

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

Hesiod

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

Eliot, George

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Claudius

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

Blaise Pascal

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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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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 shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Plato

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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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

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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 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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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

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

Buddha

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

King Edward the Third

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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

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

Hesiod

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Horton, Doug

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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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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 nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

West, Mae

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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.