Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Evil

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Hesiod

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

Mary Renault

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Weber, C. J.

11.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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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 face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

King Edward the Third

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Aristotle

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

Mae West

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Carlin, George

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

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

Buddha

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Hood, Thomas

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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

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

Masters, Brian

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Eliot, George

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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