Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Bellow, Saul

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Bible

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

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Masters, Brian

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

Mae West

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Seneca

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

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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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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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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Aristotle

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

James, William

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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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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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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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Eliot, George

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Mary Renault

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

Horton, Doug

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

Edmund Burke

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Homer

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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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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug