Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Bible

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

Ayn Rand

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.

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

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

Darwin, Charles R.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Claudius

10.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

11.

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

12.

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

Phaedrus

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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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Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Evil spelled backward is live.

18.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

25.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Bischer

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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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.

30.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

James, William

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

King Edward the Third

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Mae West

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bible