Quotes about evil

"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 on evil   

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas on evil   

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

Chapman, Maria Weston on evil   

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

Cioran, E. M. on evil   

"To do no evil is good, to intend none better."

Claudius on evil
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"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."

Conrad, Joseph on evil
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"All evils are equal when they are extreme."

Corneille, Pierre on evil   

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

Crowley, Aleister on evil   

"I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."

Curie, Madame Marie on evil   

"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."

Darwin, Charles R. on evil   

"Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet."

Donne, John on evil   

"Evil be to him who evil thinks."

Edward II on evil   

"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

Eliot, George on evil
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"One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good."

Eliot, George on evil   

"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. on evil
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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 on evil   

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

Gracian, Baltasar on evil   

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

Haydon, Benjamin on evil   

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

Hemingway, Ernest on evil   

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

Hoffer, Eric on evil   

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

Hood, Thomas on evil   

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

James, William on evil   

"They that know no evil will suspect none."

Jonson, Ben on evil   

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on evil
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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 on evil
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"We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on evil   

"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 on evil   

"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."

Lawrence, D. H. on evil   

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

Lerner, Max on evil
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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 on evil   

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

Maistre, Joseph De on evil   

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

Masters, Brian on evil   

"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 on evil   

"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 on evil   

"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 on evil   

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti on evil   

"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."

Pascal, Blaise on evil   

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