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

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

Bible

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

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

Blaise Pascal

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bellow, Saul

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

10.

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

11.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

James, William

13.

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

Eliot, George

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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

16.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

17.

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

Hood, Thomas

18.

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

19.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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.

27.

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

Bischer

28.

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

29.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

30.

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

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

32.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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

Socrates

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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 spelled backward is live.

40.

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

King Edward the Third

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

42.

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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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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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

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

Carlin, George

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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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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.