Motivational Quotes

Evil

There is no bad in good.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Bible

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.

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

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

Phaedrus

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Bischer

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

19.

Evil spelled backward is live.

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

22.

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

23.

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 nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

25.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

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

Buddha

28.

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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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

30.

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

31.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

32.

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

Proverb

33.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

34.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

35.

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

Auden, W. H.

36.

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

Bellow, Saul

37.

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

Proverb, American

38.

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

Mae West

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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

Horton, Doug

41.

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

Bible

42.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

43.

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

44.

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.

Martin, Tony

45.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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