Motivational Quotes

Evil

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Evil

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Homer

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hemingway, Ernest

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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

Hesiod

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

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

Bischer

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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.

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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Auden, W. H.

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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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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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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Mae West

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Simone Weil

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

Socrates

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

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

Aristotle

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

Masters, Brian

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

James, William

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Claudius

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