Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Mary Renault

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

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.

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

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Masters, Brian

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

Hesiod

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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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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.

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

Phaedrus

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

Aristotle

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Edmund Burke

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Horton, Doug

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Eliot, George

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Voltaire

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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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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.