Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Voltaire

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

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

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

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

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Crowley, Aleister

12.

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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Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

14.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Aristotle

18.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

19.

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

Plato

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb

28.

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.

29.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bischer

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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 is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

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

King Edward the Third

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Hesiod

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

Claudius

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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