Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Evil

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.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Bible

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

Lerner, Max

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Haydon, Benjamin

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

11.

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

Hesiod

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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

17.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Plato

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Curie, Madame Marie

29.

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

West, Mae

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Eliot, George

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Voltaire

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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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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aristotle

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