Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- King Edward the Third

Best Quotes about Evil

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Buddha

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Carlin, George

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Phaedrus

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

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

Edmund Burke

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Mae West

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

Aristotle

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Homer

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

Masters, Brian

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

King Edward the Third

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