Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Carlin, George

Best Quotes about Evil

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Phaedrus

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

Homer

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

Aristotle

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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 face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Blaise Pascal

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb

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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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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

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

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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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hesiod

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

Ayn Rand

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Hood, Thomas

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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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Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Plato

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Horton, Doug

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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hesiod

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