Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Wollstonecraft, Mary

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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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 is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Maistre, Joseph De

16.

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

Bible

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

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

Bischer

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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 surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, American

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

Bellow, Saul

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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

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

Socrates

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

Claudius

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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

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

King Edward the Third

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Ayn Rand

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Hesiod

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

Hemingway, Ernest