Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Evil

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

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.

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

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

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

Buddha

10.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Carlin, George

13.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

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

Lerner, Max

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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

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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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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

19.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

20.

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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

22.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

23.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Hesiod

25.

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

West, Mae

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

27.

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

Hesiod

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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

30.

Evil spelled backward is live.

31.

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

Ayn Rand

32.

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

Claudius

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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

Blaise Pascal

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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.

Euripides

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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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.

39.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

40.

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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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

42.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Hood, Thomas

44.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

45.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

46.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Bischer

48.

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

Weber, C. J.

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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