Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aristotle

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

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

10.

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

Mary Renault

11.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

12.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

13.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

16.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Buddha

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

King Edward the Third

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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 love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

22.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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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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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

25.

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.

26.

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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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Homer

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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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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

31.

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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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Phaedrus

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

Socrates

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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

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

Bible

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

38.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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.

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

Hesiod

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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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