Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Auden, W. H.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Voltaire

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

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

Proverb

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

Hesiod

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

Bischer

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

James, William

14.

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

Aristotle

15.

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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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

17.

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.

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

22.

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

Phaedrus

23.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

24.

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

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

28.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

Bellow, Saul

31.

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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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

34.

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

Socrates

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

38.

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

Carlin, George

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

Proverb, American

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Claudius

43.

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

King Edward the Third

44.

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

Lerner, Max

45.

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

Masters, Brian

46.

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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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

49.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus