Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

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.

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

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

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

12.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

15.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Aristotle

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

Socrates

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Proverb

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Bischer

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

29.

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 love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

West, Mae

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Proverb, American

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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

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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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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 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 enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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