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

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

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

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Buddha

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

Bible

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

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.

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Phaedrus

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We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

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

Socrates

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

Plato

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

Proverb

19.

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

Bible

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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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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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

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

Aristotle

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

Claudius

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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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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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.