Motivational Quotes

Evil

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

- Lerner, Max

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Blaise Pascal

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Aristotle

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Phaedrus

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

Crowley, Aleister

10.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

11.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

24.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

25.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

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

27.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

30.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

31.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

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

Buddha

33.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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

35.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Mary Renault

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Ayn Rand

39.

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

Proverb, American

40.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

41.

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

Masters, Brian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Weber, C. J.

45.

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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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 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

48.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Bischer