Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hood, Thomas

Best Quotes about Evil

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.

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Burroughs, William S.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Lerner, Max

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

11.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

12.

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

Plato

13.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hesiod

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

Phaedrus

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Edmund Burke

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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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Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

33.

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

Claudius

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Hesiod

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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.

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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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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.

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

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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

44.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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.