Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Weber, C. J.

Best Quotes about Evil

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Simone Weil

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

11.

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

Carlin, George

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Evil spelled backward is live.

13.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

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

Proverb

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Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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

Edmund Burke

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hesiod

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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

West, Mae

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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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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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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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Buddha

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Bellow, Saul

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Crowley, Aleister

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]