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

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ayn Rand

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

Claudius

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Masters, Brian

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

11.

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 end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Mae West

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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

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

Proverb, American

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

Lerner, Max

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

Buddha

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

Carlin, George

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

King Edward the Third

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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 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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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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 brings men together.

Aristotle

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Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

43.

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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De