Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Claudius

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

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Aristotle

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buddha

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

10.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

11.

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

12.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

13.

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

Mary Renault

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

Eliot, George

16.

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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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

18.

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

Bischer

19.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Ayn Rand

22.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

23.

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

Proverb, American

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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

25.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

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

Aristotle

27.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

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

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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

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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

35.

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

Hesiod

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

38.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

39.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

40.

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

Socrates

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

44.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

45.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

46.

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

West, Mae

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

50.

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