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

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

Eliot, George

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Ayn Rand

Evil spelled backward is live.

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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Plato

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Blaise Pascal

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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Crowley, Aleister

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Horton, Doug

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

Voltaire

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Socrates

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

West, Mae

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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.

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

King Edward the Third

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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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 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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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

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

Bischer

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

Hesiod

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Carlin, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Masters, Brian

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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 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