Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Phaedrus

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

Socrates

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Edmund Burke

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

10.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

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.

12.

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

Ayn Rand

13.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

Claudius

15.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

16.

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

Aristotle

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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

19.

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

Hesiod

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, American

24.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

26.

Evil spelled backward is live.

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

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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Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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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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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Hesiod

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

38.

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

Masters, Brian

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