Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Haydon, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Plato

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Aristotle

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Bible

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hood, Thomas

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

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

Lerner, Max

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

Proverb, American

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

Hesiod

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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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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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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Phaedrus

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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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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Blaise Pascal

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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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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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

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

Mae West