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

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

Crowley, Aleister

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Edmund Burke

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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

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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 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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

King Edward the Third

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Mae West

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Claudius

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Ayn Rand

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb, American

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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 brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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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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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

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Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

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

Masters, Brian

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

Hesiod

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

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