Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Carlin, George

10.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

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.

13.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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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

15.

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

Homer

17.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

18.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bischer

25.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Buddha

27.

Evil spelled backward is live.

28.

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

29.

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

Hesiod

30.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

31.

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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

34.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Plato

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

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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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

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

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

Ayn Rand

42.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

44.

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

Voltaire

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

Claudius

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

Eliot, George

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon