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 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

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

Hesiod

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

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

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

10.

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

Phaedrus

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

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

Plato

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

Crowley, Aleister

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Bible

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

Bischer

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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.

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

25.

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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

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

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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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But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Simone Weil

36.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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

45.

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 evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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

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

Burroughs, William S.

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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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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire