Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

Evil spelled backward is live.

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Lerner, Max

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

Buddha

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

Proverb, American

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Aristotle

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The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Hesiod

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mae West

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What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

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

Phaedrus

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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.