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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.
Evil Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Evil

1.
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire

2.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
West, Mae

3.
The evil that we know is best.
Titus Maccius Plautus

4.
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
Eliot, George

5.
What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.
Weber, C. J.

6.
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault

7.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Cioran, E. M.

8.
The love of evil is the root of all money.
Proverb, American

9.
Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)
King Edward the Third

10.
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-
Carlin, George

11.
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Lerner, Max

12.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Gandhi, Mahatma

13.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Theodore Roosevelt

14.
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
Homer

15.
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.
Bible

16.
There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.
Socrates

17.
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.
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

19.
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

20.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

21.
There is no bad in good.
Horton, Doug

22.
Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

24.
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Proverb, Ethiopian

25.
Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]
Bible

26.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato

27.
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Phaedrus

28.
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

29.
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
Ayn Rand

30.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
King Jr. Martin Luther

31.
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

32.
But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
Hood, Thomas

33.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal

34.
The end excuses any evil.
Sophocles

35.
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

36.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Haydon, Benjamin

37.
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid

38.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist
Baudelaire, Charles

39.
Of two evils we must always choose the least.
Thomas a Kempis

40.
Evil draws men together.
Aristotle

41.
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
Hesiod

42.
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

43.
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

44.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke

45.
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
Donne, John

46.
Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
Masters, Brian

47.
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

48.
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

49.
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
Hemingway, Ernest

50.
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


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