Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Best Quotes about Evil

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Aristotle

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Horton, Doug

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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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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Carlin, George

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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

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

Masters, Brian

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

Bischer

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Voltaire

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

Edmund Burke

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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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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.

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Bible

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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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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Plato

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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