Motivational Quotes

Evil

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Evil

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

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

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Hesiod

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

10.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

13.

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

Blaise Pascal

15.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

16.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

17.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

18.

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

Claudius

19.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

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

Bible

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

25.

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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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

27.

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

Socrates

28.

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

Crowley, Aleister

29.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

30.

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

Bellow, Saul

31.

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

32.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

33.

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

West, Mae

34.

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

35.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

37.

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

Simone Weil

38.

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

Masters, Brian

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

Plato

40.

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

Phaedrus

41.

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

Aristotle

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

48.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

49.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Hesiod