Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hood, Thomas

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Auden, W. H.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Mae West

12.

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

Hood, Thomas

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Eliot, George

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hesiod

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

Buddha

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

Hesiod

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

King Edward the Third

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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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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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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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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, American

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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

38.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Claudius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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

Bischer

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

Plato

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

Bible

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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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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest