Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- King Edward the Third

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Masters, Brian

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

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

11.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Mae West

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Ayn Rand

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

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

Phaedrus

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

Hesiod

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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

King Edward the Third

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

Proverb

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.