Motivational Quotes

Evil

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

- Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Best Quotes about Evil

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hemingway, Ernest

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Phaedrus

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Proverb, American

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

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

10.

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

11.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

13.

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

Crowley, Aleister

16.

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

Claudius

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

Homer

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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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

Evil spelled backward is live.

22.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Aristotle

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Voltaire

33.

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

West, Mae

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

41.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Horton, Doug

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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Evil brings men together.