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

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

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

Proverb, American

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

West, Mae

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.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Bible

11.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

12.

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

Lerner, Max

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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

Carlin, George

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Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Plato

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

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

Buddha

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Bischer

31.

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

Hesiod

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

37.

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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Phaedrus

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

Aristotle

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

Homer

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Mae West

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Auden, W. H.

49.

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

Hood, Thomas

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.