Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil spelled backward is live.

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Best Quotes about Evil

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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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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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Bible

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Masters, Brian

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Socrates

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

Buddha

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Phaedrus

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Plato

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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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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

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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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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

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

Bible

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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 end excuses any evil.

Sophocles