Motivational Quotes

Evil

Of two evils, choose neither.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Evil

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Aristotle

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

James, William

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

Horton, Doug

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

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

Bellow, Saul

10.

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

11.

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

Mae West

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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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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

15.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

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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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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

18.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

19.

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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

21.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

25.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

26.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

27.

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

Crowley, Aleister

28.

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

Masters, Brian

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

Voltaire

30.

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

Auden, W. H.

31.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

32.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

34.

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

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

37.

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

Hesiod

38.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Hood, Thomas

42.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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

44.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

49.

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

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