Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Masters, Brian

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Eliot, George

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

Voltaire

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

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Ayn Rand

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Burroughs, William S.

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To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Claudius

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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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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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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

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

King Edward the Third

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

Edmund Burke

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Aristotle

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Bible

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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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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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Homer

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

Proverb

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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Hesiod

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

Mae West

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Baudelaire, Charles