Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hood, Thomas

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Auden, W. H.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Buddha

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

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

10.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

11.

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

Masters, Brian

12.

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

Crowley, Aleister

13.

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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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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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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Eliot, George

28.

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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

Mary Renault

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

37.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Homer

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

Ayn Rand

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

Hesiod

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Socrates

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

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

Mae West

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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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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

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

Phaedrus

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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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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