Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Claudius

Best Quotes about Evil

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

James, William

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

King Edward the Third

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Eliot, George

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

Mary Renault

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

West, Mae

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Phaedrus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Aristotle

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Claudius

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Hesiod

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Carlin, George

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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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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 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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Buddha

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Evil draws men together.