Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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.

2.

Evil spelled backward is live.

3.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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.

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

Plato

6.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

7.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

8.

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

Socrates

9.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

10.

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

Horton, Doug

11.

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

Edmund Burke

12.

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

Buddha

13.

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

Bischer

14.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

15.

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

Simone Weil

16.

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

17.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

18.

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

James, William

19.

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

20.

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

Burroughs, William S.

21.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

22.

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

23.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

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

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

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.

28.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

30.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

32.

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

Carlin, George

33.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

38.

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

Lerner, Max

39.

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

Blaise Pascal

40.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

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

Bible

42.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

43.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

44.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

45.

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

Bellow, Saul

46.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

47.

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

Mae West

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Masters, Brian