Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Maistre, Joseph De

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

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

Horton, Doug

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Edmund Burke

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Carlin, George

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

Ayn Rand

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

Lerner, Max

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Evil spelled backward is live.

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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

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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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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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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Weber, C. J.

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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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Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Mary Renault

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The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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