Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Mary Renault

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Eliot, George

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Claudius

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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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To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

18.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

21.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Weber, C. J.

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Mae West

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Masters, Brian

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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 love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Hesiod

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

Blaise Pascal

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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 evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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 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 draws men together.

Aristotle

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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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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

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Hood, Thomas

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