Motivational Quotes

Evil

They that know no evil will suspect none.

- Jonson, Ben

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Aristotle

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Crowley, Aleister

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bischer

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blaise Pascal

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Ayn Rand

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Eliot, George

17.

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

18.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

20.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

21.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

22.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Hesiod

25.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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

Mae West

27.

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

Cioran, E. M.

28.

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

Plato

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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

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

King Edward the Third

31.

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.

32.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

36.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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

40.

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

Mary Renault

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

Homer

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

Voltaire

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

Auden, W. H.

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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