Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Bellow, Saul

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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

Mary Renault

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

Bischer

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Voltaire

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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 nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Hesiod

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

James, William

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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 spelled backward is live.

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

Lerner, Max

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hesiod

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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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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

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

King Edward the Third

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

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

Masters, Brian

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

Buddha

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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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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

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

Carlin, George