Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Mae West

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Crowley, Aleister

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Aristotle

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

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carlin, George

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

Buddha

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mary Renault

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

31.

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

Bible

33.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

King Edward the Third

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

Bischer

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

Masters, Brian

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

Claudius

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

43.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

44.

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

Proverb

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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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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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