Motivational Quotes

Evil

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Socrates

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Proverb

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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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

West, Mae

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, American

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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 evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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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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

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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

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

Claudius

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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Phaedrus

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

Bischer

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

Carlin, George

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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.