Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Mary Renault

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Masters, Brian

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Proverb

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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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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

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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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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aristotle

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

Edmund Burke

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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 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 is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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 evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hesiod

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato