Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Evil

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Bible

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hesiod

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Bischer

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

Mary Renault

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hesiod

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Hesiod

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

Carlin, George

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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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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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 enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Plato

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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

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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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Mae West

32.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

King Edward the Third

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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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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 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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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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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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

Masters, Brian

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

Aristotle

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Simone Weil

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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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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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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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Proverb

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson