Motivational Quotes

Evil

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hoffer, Eric

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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

12.

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

Hood, Thomas

13.

Evil spelled backward is live.

14.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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

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

Aristotle

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Weber, C. J.

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Claudius

33.

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

Proverb, American

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Plato

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

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