Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Blaise Pascal

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Buddha

2.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

3.

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

Hesiod

4.

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

Socrates

5.

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

6.

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

Proverb, American

7.

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

Voltaire

8.

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

Hoffer, Eric

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

Evil spelled backward is live.

14.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

15.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Maistre, Joseph De

16.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

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

Horton, Doug

18.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

19.

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

Phaedrus

20.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

21.

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

Simone Weil

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

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

Crowley, Aleister

24.

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

Homer

25.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

26.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

27.

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

28.

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

Bischer

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

Blaise Pascal

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

34.

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

35.

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

Lerner, Max

36.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

37.

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

Eliot, George

38.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.