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

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.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

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

Aristotle

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

Hesiod

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Homer

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

10.

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

11.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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

King Edward the Third

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bischer

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

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Evil spelled backward is live.

20.

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

Socrates

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

Bible

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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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

27.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

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

Masters, Brian

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Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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

Plato

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

Mae West

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

Phaedrus

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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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 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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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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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.

44.

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

Hesiod

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.