Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Mae West

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bischer

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

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.

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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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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Homer

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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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

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Socrates

31.

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

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

Masters, Brian

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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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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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Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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

Aristotle

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Carlin, George

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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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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

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

Buddha

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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