Motivational Quotes

Evil

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Evil

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

West, Mae

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

James, William

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

10.

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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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Hesiod

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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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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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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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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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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 brings men together.

Aristotle

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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 is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Claudius

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Mary Renault

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

Homer

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

Burroughs, William S.

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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