Quotes about evil

"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 on evil
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"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."

Phaedrus on evil   

"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."

Plato on evil   

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

Proverb on evil
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"The love of evil is the root of all money."

Proverb, American on evil   

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

Proverb, American on evil
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"Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree."

Proverb, Ethiopian on evil   

"Wickedness is its own punishment."

Quarles, Francis on evil   

"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 on evil   

"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 on evil   

"Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty."

Rice, Anne on evil   

"Our greatest evils flow from ourselves."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on evil
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"Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world."

Sade, Marquis De on evil   

"No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us."

Seneca on evil   

"There's small choice in rotten apples."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."

Shaw, George Bernard on evil   

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall on evil   

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

Socrates on evil
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"Of two evils, choose neither."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on evil
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"Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Unknown, Source on evil   

"Evil spelled backward is live."

Unknown, Source on evil
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"Evil is nourished and grows by concealment."

Virgil on evil
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"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."

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

Weber, C. J. on evil   

"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 on evil   

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

West, Mae on evil
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"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."

West, Mae on evil
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"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness."

Wollstonecraft, Mary on evil
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"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."

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

Bible on evil   

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on evil   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on evil
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"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."

Gandhi, Mahatma on evil
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"Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you."

Horton, Doug on evil   

"There is no bad in good."

Horton, Doug on evil   

"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. on evil   

"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 on evil   

"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

Socrates on evil   

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

Baudelaire, Charles on evil
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