Motivational Quotes

Evil

The evil that we know is best.

- Titus Maccius Plautus

Best Quotes about Evil

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Hesiod

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Weber, C. J.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Voltaire

10.

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.

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

Hesiod

14.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

15.

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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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.

17.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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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

22.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

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

Bible

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Plato

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Socrates

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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 hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb

40.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

43.

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

Buddha

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

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

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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