Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Mae West

2.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

3.

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

West, Mae

4.

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

Socrates

5.

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

6.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

7.

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

8.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

9.

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

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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

Bischer

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

17.

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

18.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

19.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

20.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

21.

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

Horton, Doug

22.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

23.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

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

Blaise Pascal

25.

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

Edmund Burke

26.

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

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Homer

29.

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

King Edward the Third

30.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

31.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

32.

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

Proverb, American

33.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

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

Plato

37.

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

38.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

39.

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

Lerner, Max

40.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

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

42.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

43.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

44.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

45.

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.

46.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

47.

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

48.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

49.

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

50.

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

Simone Weil