Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Hemingway, Ernest

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, American

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

Buddha

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

Hood, Thomas

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hesiod

10.

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

Horton, Doug

11.

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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carlin, George

14.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Weber, C. J.

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Evil spelled backward is live.

18.

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Plato

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

Blaise Pascal

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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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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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.

33.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

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

Bible

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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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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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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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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.

50.

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.