Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Evil

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Voltaire

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb, American

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hesiod

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

James, William

10.

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

Ayn Rand

11.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Plato

15.

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

Bischer

16.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

17.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

18.

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

Burroughs, William S.

19.

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

20.

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

Bellow, Saul

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

23.

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

Masters, Brian

24.

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

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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

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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

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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

28.

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

King Edward the Third

29.

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

Claudius

30.

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

Mae West

31.

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

Homer

32.

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

Simone Weil

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

34.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

35.

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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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

37.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

40.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

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.

42.

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

Phaedrus

43.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

44.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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

46.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

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

Aristotle

48.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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Evil brings men together.