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

1.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

2.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

3.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

4.

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

5.

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

Bible

6.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

7.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

8.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

9.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

10.

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

Phaedrus

11.

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

Bellow, Saul

12.

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

Proverb, American

13.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

14.

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.

15.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

18.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

Evil spelled backward is live.

20.

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

21.

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

Aristotle

22.

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

Masters, Brian

23.

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

24.

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

Horton, Doug

25.

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

Claudius

26.

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

Burroughs, William S.

27.

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

Homer

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Ayn Rand

31.

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

Crowley, Aleister

32.

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

33.

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

34.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

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

Hesiod

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

Blaise Pascal

40.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

41.

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

42.

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

Bischer

43.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

44.

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

45.

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

Hesiod

46.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

47.

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

Edmund Burke

48.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

50.

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