Motivational Quotes

Evil

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Masters, Brian

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Aristotle

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

Edmund Burke

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.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Proverb

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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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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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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 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

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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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 evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis