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

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hesiod

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bischer

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

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

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

Phaedrus

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

13.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aristotle

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

22.

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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Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

James, William

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

32.

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

Masters, Brian

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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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Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlin, George

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

Buddha

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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

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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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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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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

43.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Horton, Doug

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

Homer

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

Claudius