Motivational Quotes

Evil

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

West, Mae

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

Homer

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

Claudius

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

Ayn Rand

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

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

Aristotle

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

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

10.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

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

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Buddha

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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

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Eliot, George

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Proverb

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Carlyle, 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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Phaedrus

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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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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

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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.

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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

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

Bischer

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

Socrates

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

Hood, Thomas

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Blaise Pascal

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Auden, W. H.

48.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid