Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

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

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ayn Rand

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

Aristotle

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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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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Homer

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

Burroughs, William S.

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My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

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

Mae West

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

Buddha

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

Bible

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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.

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

Aristotle

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Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hesiod

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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Butterworth, Eric

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Horton, Doug

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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

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

Claudius

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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall