Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Blaise Pascal

Best Quotes about Evil

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.

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

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Hesiod

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

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

Homer

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Claudius

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Proverb

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Evil spelled backward is live.

27.

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

Buddha

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

West, Mae

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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 done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Mae West

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

King Edward the Third

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.