Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- King Edward the Third

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Carlin, George

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

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

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

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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

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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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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

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Ayn Rand

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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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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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mary Renault

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

Buddha

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Socrates

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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

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

Phaedrus

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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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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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.