Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Evil

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

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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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Hesiod

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cioran, E. M.

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

King Edward the Third

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Eliot, George

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

Voltaire

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Burroughs, William S.

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Evil spelled backward is live.

40.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

James, William

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Bischer

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

Edmund Burke

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

Plato

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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.