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

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

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

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

Hesiod

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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

Cioran, E. M.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

10.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

11.

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

Burroughs, William S.

12.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Claudius

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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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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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The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

18.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

19.

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

Mary Renault

20.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Bischer

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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.

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

Plato

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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

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

King Edward the Third

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

West, Mae

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

Proverb

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Maistre, Joseph De

33.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Voltaire

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

Simone Weil

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Ayn Rand

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Homer

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