Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Haydon, Benjamin

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Aristotle

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

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

11.

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

Simone Weil

12.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

13.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

14.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

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

Horton, Doug

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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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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 shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Lerner, Max

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Hesiod

28.

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

Masters, Brian

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

30.

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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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

32.

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

Aristotle

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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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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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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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

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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

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

Eliot, George

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Phaedrus

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