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

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

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bischer

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

Proverb

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

Aristotle

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

10.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

11.

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

12.

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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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.

15.

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

Bible

16.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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

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

Proverb, American

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

Aristotle

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Voltaire

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

Hesiod

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

Eliot, George

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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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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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Crowley, Aleister