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

2.
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
Simone Weil

3.
But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
Hood, Thomas

4.
No evil shall happen to the just.
Bible

5.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Curie, Madame Marie

6.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

7.
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

8.
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

9.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Aristotle

10.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Cioran, E. M.

11.
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
Maugham, W. Somerset

12.
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

13.
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

14.
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

15.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

16.
By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome
Proverb

17.
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
Hesiod

18.
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
Carlyle, Thomas

19.
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

20.
Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
Horton, Doug

21.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato

22.
To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
Claudius

23.
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault

24.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Gandhi, Mahatma

25.
Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.
Proverb, American

26.
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

27.
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

28.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Theodore Roosevelt

29.
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

30.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Bellow, Saul

31.
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Phaedrus

32.
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
Ayn Rand

33.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Hesiod

34.
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.
Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
Homer

36.
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
Auden, W. H.

37.
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-
Carlin, George

38.
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

39.
The evil that we know is best.
Titus Maccius Plautus

40.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
Wollstonecraft, Mary

41.
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

42.
Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]
Bible

43.
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
Hemingway, Ernest

44.
Of two evils we must always choose the least.
Thomas a Kempis

45.
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

46.
To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.
Johnson, Jeremy P.

47.
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
Donne, John

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

50.
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
Gloria Steinem


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