Motivational Quotes

Evil

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.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

Hesiod

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

James, William

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

Hood, Thomas

10.

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

Hesiod

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Masters, Brian

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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

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

West, Mae

16.

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

Mae West

17.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

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

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

King Edward the Third

22.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

24.

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

Buddha

25.

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

Bischer

26.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Simone Weil

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Eliot, George

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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

35.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

36.

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

Edmund Burke

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Burroughs, William S.

43.

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.

44.

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

Blaise Pascal

45.

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

Mary Renault

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

Gracian, Baltasar

49.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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