Motivational Quotes

Evil

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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Best Quotes about Evil

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

Buddha

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

Claudius

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Carlin, George

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Plato

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

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

11.

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

12.

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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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

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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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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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

18.

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.

19.

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

Mae West

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

Hesiod

21.

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

22.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

23.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

24.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

25.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

West, Mae

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, American

30.

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

Bellow, Saul

31.

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

Proverb

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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

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

35.

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

Hoffer, Eric

36.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

37.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

38.

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

Edmund Burke

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

40.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

41.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

42.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

43.

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

Bible

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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

47.

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

Hood, Thomas

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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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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato