Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bellow, Saul

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Plato

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Claudius

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, American

10.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

12.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Edmund Burke

18.

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

19.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

20.

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

Lerner, Max

21.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

22.

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.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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

27.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

28.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

29.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

30.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

31.

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

Hesiod

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

Evil spelled backward is live.

34.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

36.

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

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

Homer

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

Aristotle

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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.

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