Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Masters, Brian

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

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

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

10.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

11.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

12.

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

Burroughs, William S.

13.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bischer

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

Proverb

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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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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 notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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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 brings men together.

Aristotle

31.

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

Lerner, Max

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

Crowley, Aleister

34.

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

Proverb, American

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Homer

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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

38.

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.

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hesiod

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

Claudius

42.

Milton, John

43.

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

King Edward the Third

45.

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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.