Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

West, Mae

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

Bible

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Aristotle

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

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Bible

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

Burroughs, William S.

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

17.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

19.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

20.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

21.

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

Weber, C. J.

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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Claudius

24.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

25.

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

Hood, Thomas

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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.

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Buddha

29.

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

30.

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

Crowley, Aleister

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

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

Ayn Rand

33.

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

Hesiod

34.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

35.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

36.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

37.

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

Carlin, George

38.

Evil spelled backward is live.

39.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

40.

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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

43.

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.

44.

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

Mae West

45.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

46.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

48.

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

Phaedrus

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No evil shall happen to the just.