Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Chapman, Maria Weston

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

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

Claudius

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

King Edward the Third

10.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

11.

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

Eliot, George

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

Mae West

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

Edmund Burke

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

Mary Renault

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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

19.

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

Weber, C. J.

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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

21.

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

Bible

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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

24.

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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Bischer

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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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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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

Socrates

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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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Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

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

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.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Hesiod

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Masters, Brian

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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 evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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