Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Horton, Doug

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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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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

13.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb

15.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

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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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

19.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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

Homer

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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

23.

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

Proverb, American

25.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Socrates

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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.

28.

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

29.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Mae West

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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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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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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

45.

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

King Edward the Third

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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.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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