Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

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

James, William

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

Masters, Brian

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

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Evelyn Underhill

10.

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

11.

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.

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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hesiod

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Bible

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

Edmund Burke

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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

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Bischer

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

Aristotle

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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.