Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

- Edward II

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Claudius

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

Aristotle

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

Hesiod

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Plato

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Hesiod

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Voltaire

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Edmund Burke

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

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

Aristotle

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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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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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Evil spelled backward is live.

35.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Phaedrus

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Bible

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

Ayn Rand

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

Weber, C. J.

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

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

Oliver Goldsmith