Motivational Quotes

Evil

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Homer

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

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

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

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

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

Hesiod

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

King Edward the Third

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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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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aristotle

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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

Bischer

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

Plato

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Socrates

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Mae West