Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Plato

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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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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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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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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Hesiod

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Horton, Doug

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Ayn Rand

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb

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

Blaise Pascal