Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Aristotle

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.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

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

Horton, Doug

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Proverb

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

Buddha

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

10.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

11.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

12.

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

Ayn Rand

13.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

14.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

16.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Homer

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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

20.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

25.

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.

26.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

29.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

30.

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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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

34.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Aristotle

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

43.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

44.

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

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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