Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil spelled backward is live.

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Best Quotes about Evil

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

James, William

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

Cioran, E. M.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hood, Thomas

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

Lerner, Max

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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

11.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

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

Proverb, American

13.

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

Mary Renault

14.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

18.

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

Hesiod

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

Bible

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

Claudius

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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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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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

25.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Mae West

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

Homer

28.

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

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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.

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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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All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Masters, Brian

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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.