Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Simone Weil

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Mary Renault

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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.

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

Mae West

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

Bellow, Saul

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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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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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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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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

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

Bible

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

Carlin, George

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To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Claudius

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

Aristotle

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, American

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Homer

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

Hesiod

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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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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

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