Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Proverb, Ethiopian

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Bible

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

West, Mae

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

Mae West

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Socrates

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Eliot, George

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Voltaire

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

Hesiod

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buddha

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

Masters, Brian

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

Bible

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Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

James, William

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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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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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 obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.