Motivational Quotes

Evil

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Voltaire

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Bischer

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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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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

King Edward the Third

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

Hesiod

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

Bible

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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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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Weber, C. J.

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Phaedrus

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

Burroughs, William S.

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Claudius

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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

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Carlin, George

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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 enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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