Motivational Quotes

Evil

They that know no evil will suspect none.

- Jonson, Ben

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Ayn Rand

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Voltaire

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

Bischer

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

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

West, Mae

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

Bible

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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

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

Carlin, George

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Mae West

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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

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Homer

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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.

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Bible

34.

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.

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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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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Plato

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Proverb

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

Claudius

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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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