Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Plato

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

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Buddha

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Claudius

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

Oliver Goldsmith

11.

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

Bible

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Edmund Burke

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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

26.

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

James, William

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

Crowley, Aleister

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Hesiod

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

Lerner, Max

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

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.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, American

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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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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