Motivational Quotes

Evil

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb

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

Weber, C. J.

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

King Edward the Third

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

Carlyle, Thomas

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Auden, W. H.

22.

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

Ayn Rand

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Socrates

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Lerner, Max

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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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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Phaedrus

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

Masters, Brian

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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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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Aristotle

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

Mae West

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

Carlin, George

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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.