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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Bible

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

Hesiod

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Phaedrus

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

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

Bischer

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

Cioran, E. M.

10.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

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

Socrates

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

14.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Aristotle

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hesiod

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

Proverb

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

West, Mae

25.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Aristotle

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

Plato

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Claudius

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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