Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Masters, Brian

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aristotle

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

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

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

Haydon, Benjamin

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Masters, Brian

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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

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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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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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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

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Aristotle

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

Weber, C. J.

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Buddha

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Horton, Doug

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

West, Mae

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

Mae West

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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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