Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Blaise Pascal

Best Quotes about Evil

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Socrates

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

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

Proverb

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

10.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Evil spelled backward is live.

13.

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

Hood, Thomas

14.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Proverb, American

19.

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

Buddha

20.

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

Bellow, Saul

21.

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

Mary Renault

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Claudius

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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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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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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

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

Phaedrus

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

36.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

King Edward the Third

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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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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

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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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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Masters, Brian

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

46.

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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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.

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