Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil draws men together.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

5.

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

6.

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

Claudius

7.

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

Hood, Thomas

8.

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

9.

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

Weber, C. J.

10.

Evil spelled backward is live.

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

West, Mae

13.

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

Lerner, Max

14.

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

Bellow, Saul

15.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

16.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

17.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Bible

19.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

20.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

21.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

22.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

23.

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

Simone Weil

24.

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

25.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

26.

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

27.

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

Socrates

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

30.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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

Crowley, Aleister

32.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

33.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

34.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

35.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

36.

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

37.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

38.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

39.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Proverb, American

43.

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

44.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

45.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

46.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

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

James, William

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt