Motivational Quotes

Evil

There is no bad in good.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

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

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

West, Mae

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Aristotle

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

11.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

13.

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

Homer

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bischer

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

Proverb, American

18.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

19.

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

Carlin, George

20.

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

Voltaire

21.

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

Bible

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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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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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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

25.

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 shall happen to the just.

Bible

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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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

29.

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

Lerner, Max

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Evil spelled backward is live.

31.

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hesiod

34.

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

Hood, Thomas

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Crowley, Aleister

37.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hesiod

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