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

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hesiod

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Homer

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Aristotle

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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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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 evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Hesiod

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

Horton, Doug

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

Eliot, George

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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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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

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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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lerner, Max

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

King Edward the Third

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

Buddha

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

Carlin, George

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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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