Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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.

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

Crowley, Aleister

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Buddha

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

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

Weber, C. J.

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hesiod

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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

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Mary Renault

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

Phaedrus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Hesiod

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

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But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

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

Homer

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

Proverb, American

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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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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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

Bischer

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

Auden, W. H.

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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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