Motivational Quotes

Evil

They that know no evil will suspect none.

- Jonson, Ben

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

West, Mae

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Aristotle

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

10.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

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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.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

17.

Evil spelled backward is live.

18.

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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

20.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

24.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

25.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Bible

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Homer

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

Voltaire

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Plato

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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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

40.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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

42.

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

Bellow, Saul

43.

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

Hesiod

44.

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

Ayn Rand

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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