Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Hood, Thomas

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

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

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

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Claudius

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

Mary Renault

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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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Buddha

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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Bischer

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Aristotle

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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Carlin, George

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, American

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By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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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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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