Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Socrates

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.

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

Claudius

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Bible

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

Weber, C. J.

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

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.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Burroughs, William S.

12.

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

King Edward the Third

13.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

14.

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

Carlin, George

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Masters, Brian

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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

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

Blaise Pascal

22.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

23.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

24.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

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

West, Mae

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

28.

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

Ayn Rand

29.

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

30.

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

Plato

31.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

32.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

33.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

34.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

35.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

36.

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

Eliot, George

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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

43.

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

Mae West

44.

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

Phaedrus

45.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

46.

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

Homer

49.

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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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