Motivational Quotes

Evil

There is no bad in good.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Bellow, Saul

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

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

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

Hesiod

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

James, William

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

Bible

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

18.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

19.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

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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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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

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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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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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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

25.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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.

30.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

31.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Plato

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bischer

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

Edmund Burke

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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.

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Mae West

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.