Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Bible

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

Simone Weil

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

Plato

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

Eliot, George

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Claudius

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Edmund Burke

10.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

11.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Crowley, Aleister

14.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

15.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

16.

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

Mae West

17.

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

Bible

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

Hesiod

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Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

20.

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

Blaise Pascal

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Hesiod

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

27.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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 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

31.

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 draws men together.

Aristotle

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Ayn Rand

35.

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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Carlin, George

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

Masters, Brian

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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Hesiod

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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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