Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Plato

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

Aristotle

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

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, American

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

10.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

11.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

18.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

19.

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

Buddha

20.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hesiod

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Phaedrus

28.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Mae West

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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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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

34.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

40.

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

Lerner, Max

42.

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

Bellow, Saul

43.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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 in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

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

Blaise Pascal

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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