Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Hesiod

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Bischer

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Mary Renault

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

15.

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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lerner, Max

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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

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

Claudius

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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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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Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Edmund Burke

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

Aristotle

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Bible

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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