Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Proverb

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Cioran, E. M.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

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

Ayn Rand

10.

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

Bellow, Saul

11.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Hesiod

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Plato

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

Socrates

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

28.

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

Claudius

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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Evil spelled backward is live.

34.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hesiod

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Phaedrus

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