Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Mary Renault

Best Quotes about Evil

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Hesiod

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

Bible

12.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Bischer

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

Lerner, Max

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Voltaire

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Masters, Brian

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

Proverb, American

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Phaedrus

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

Proverb

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

Aristotle

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Buddha

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

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