Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Carlin, George

Best Quotes about Evil

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

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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

Hesiod

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

Eliot, George

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

Bible

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

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Masters, Brian

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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

13.

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

West, Mae

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

Blaise Pascal

16.

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

Hesiod

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

18.

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

20.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

24.

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

Weber, C. J.

25.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Oliver Goldsmith

33.

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

Claudius

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

Bible

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

40.

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

Mary Renault

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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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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

44.

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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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

46.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Buddha

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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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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