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

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

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

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

Weber, C. J.

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

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

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Claudius

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

Buddha

10.

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

11.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

12.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Edmund Burke

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Socrates

20.

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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

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

Carlin, George

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

Proverb, American

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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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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

35.

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

Bible

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Plato

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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

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

King Edward the Third

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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 face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Bible

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Auden, W. H.