Motivational Quotes

Evil

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.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Aristotle

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Aristotle

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

Hesiod

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

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

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

11.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

14.

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 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

16.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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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

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Socrates

20.

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

Proverb, American

21.

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

Carlin, George

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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.

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

Bischer

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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

26.

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

Masters, Brian

27.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

29.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blaise Pascal

32.

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

Plato

33.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

34.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

35.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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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Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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