Motivational Quotes

Evil

No evil shall happen to the just.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Hesiod

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

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

Proverb

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Ayn Rand

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

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Homer

10.

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

Hood, Thomas

11.

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

Proverb, American

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Bischer

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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

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

King Edward the Third

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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

25.

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 evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hesiod

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

Edmund Burke

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

Voltaire

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

James, William

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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