Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Edmund Burke

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

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

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

10.

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

Crowley, Aleister

11.

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

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Simone Weil

13.

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

Mary Renault

14.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Eliot, George

18.

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

22.

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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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

24.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

25.

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

Auden, W. H.

26.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

27.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

30.

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

Mae West

31.

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

Hesiod

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

33.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

34.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

36.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

37.

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.

38.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

39.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

40.

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

42.

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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Sade, Marquis De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

Hesiod

50.

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