Motivational Quotes

Evil

No evil shall happen to the just.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Homer

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Bellow, Saul

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Proverb, American

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

Socrates

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

Proverb

10.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

11.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Erasmus, Desiderius

12.

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

Carlin, George

13.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

15.

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

Weber, C. J.

16.

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

17.

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

Claudius

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

19.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

20.

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

Auden, W. H.

21.

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

West, Mae

22.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Bischer

25.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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

27.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

28.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

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

Bible

30.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

31.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

Hesiod

34.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

35.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

37.

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

Masters, Brian

38.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

39.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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

Edmund Burke

44.

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

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.