Motivational Quotes

Evil

The end excuses any evil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Buddha

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

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mary Renault

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

23.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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.

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

Plato

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

Bible

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

Masters, Brian

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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 draws men together.

Aristotle

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mae West

45.

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

Edmund Burke

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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aristotle

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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