Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Wollstonecraft, Mary

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Carlin, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Aristotle

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

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

Plato

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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 evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

11.

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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Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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

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

Hood, Thomas

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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

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Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mary Renault

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

Bible

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bischer

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

Proverb, American

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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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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Voltaire

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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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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Edmund Burke

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

Masters, Brian

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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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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.

43.

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

Horton, Doug

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Ayn Rand