Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Mae West

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

King Edward the Third

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

Mae West

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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.

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

10.

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

Hood, Thomas

11.

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

Carlin, George

12.

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

13.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

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

Aristotle

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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

18.

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

Crowley, Aleister

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

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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.

23.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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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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 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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

28.

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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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Buddha

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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

32.

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Proverb

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

Homer

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Bible

42.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

43.

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 is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

45.

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

Bible

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Proverb, American

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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