Motivational Quotes

Evil

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

- Edmund Burke

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Socrates

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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

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

Buddha

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Baudelaire, Charles

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

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

10.

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

Carlin, George

11.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

12.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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

Aristotle

14.

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

15.

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

West, Mae

17.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

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

Phaedrus

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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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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb

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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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, American

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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 is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Masters, Brian

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Claudius

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Horton, Doug