Motivational Quotes

Evil

They that know no evil will suspect none.

- Jonson, Ben

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Simone Weil

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

Plato

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

Socrates

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

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

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

Claudius

10.

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

11.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Hesiod

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Auden, W. H.

16.

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

17.

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

Carlin, George

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

Weber, C. J.

22.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

James, William

25.

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

Crowley, Aleister

26.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

27.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

28.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

30.

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

Bischer

31.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

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

Mae West

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

Masters, Brian

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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.