Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Baudelaire, Charles

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mae West

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

17.

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.

18.

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

Proverb

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Horton, Doug

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

Proverb, American

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

Hesiod

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

Bischer

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Claudius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Evil spelled backward is live.

34.

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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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Buddha

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Eliot, George

43.

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

Hood, Thomas

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Masters, Brian

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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