Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

King Edward the Third

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

Hesiod

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

Carlin, George

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Mae West

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

Eliot, George

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

West, Mae

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

Proverb, American

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

Bischer

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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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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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Horton, Doug

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Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hood, Thomas

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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

33.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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 things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Bible

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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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

Lerner, Max

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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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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