Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

2.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

3.

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

Ayn Rand

4.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

5.

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

Hesiod

6.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

10.

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

11.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

12.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

13.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

14.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

15.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

16.

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

Hoffer, Eric

17.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

18.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

19.

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

James, William

20.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

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

Plato

24.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

25.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Brodsky, Joseph

26.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

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

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

34.

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

Carlin, George

35.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Bischer

38.

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

Aristotle

39.

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

Phaedrus

40.

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

Edmund Burke

41.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

43.

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

44.

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

Claudius

45.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

46.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

48.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

49.

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

50.

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

Gracian, Baltasar