Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Haydon, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Curie, Madame Marie

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Hesiod

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

West, Mae

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

Homer

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

James, William

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

Ayn Rand

10.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

11.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

16.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

17.

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 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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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Bischer

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

26.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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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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

30.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

31.

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

Proverb

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

Lerner, Max

34.

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

Bellow, Saul

36.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

37.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

38.

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

Blaise Pascal

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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.

40.

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

41.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Proverb, American

44.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

45.

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

Claudius

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

49.

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

Socrates

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II