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

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

Homer

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Edmund Burke

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

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Hesiod

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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.

18.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Claudius

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

Masters, Brian

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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Evil spelled backward is live.

24.

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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bible

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

Socrates

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Lerner, Max

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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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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

38.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hood, Thomas

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Plato

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