Motivational Quotes

Evil

There is no bad in good.

- Horton, Doug

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.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Hesiod

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Hesiod

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

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

10.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

11.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

12.

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

Hood, Thomas

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Bible

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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.

Martin, Tony

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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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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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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 man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hesiod

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

Phaedrus

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

Mae West

33.

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

Proverb, American

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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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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

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

Lerner, Max

39.

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

Proverb

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Plato

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

King Edward the Third

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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