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

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

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

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hoffer, Eric

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

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

Aristotle

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Bischer

11.

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

Carlin, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Burroughs, William S.

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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

Claudius

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

Mae West

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hesiod

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

Homer

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

West, Mae

41.

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

Buddha

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

Auden, W. H.

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Proverb, American

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

Plato

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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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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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