Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bischer

Best Quotes about Evil

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Phaedrus

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

West, Mae

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Simone Weil

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

Plato

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Evil spelled backward is live.

20.

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mary Renault

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Homer

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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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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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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Eliot, George

42.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

46.

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

Claudius

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

Bischer

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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

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

Masters, Brian