Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bible

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

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Hoffer, Eric

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Claudius

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

Hesiod

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Lerner, Max

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Phaedrus

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

Proverb

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

Plato

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Edmund Burke

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

Proverb, American

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Burroughs, William S.

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Socrates

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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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.