Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Bible

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Lerner, Max

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Burroughs, William S.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

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

Voltaire

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, American

13.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

14.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Plato

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

Homer

20.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

21.

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

Edmund Burke

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

23.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Phaedrus

25.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

26.

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

27.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

32.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

33.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

34.

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

Auden, W. H.

35.

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

Mae West

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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

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

44.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Ayn Rand

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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