Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Evil

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Blaise Pascal

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

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

Hesiod

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

King Edward the Third

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

10.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Aristotle

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Voltaire

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

Bible

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

Horton, Doug

22.

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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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

24.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, American

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

Plato

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

Auden, W. H.

29.

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

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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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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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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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Evil spelled backward is live.

35.

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

Buddha

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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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.

39.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

41.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

43.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

44.

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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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

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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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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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