Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Hesiod

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

Mae West

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

Phaedrus

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

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

Aristotle

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

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

11.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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.

14.

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

James, William

15.

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

Mary Renault

16.

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

17.

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

Blaise Pascal

18.

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

Hesiod

19.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

20.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

21.

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

Lerner, Max

22.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

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

Ayn Rand

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

Hood, Thomas

27.

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

29.

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

Crowley, Aleister

30.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Masters, Brian

35.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

36.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

37.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

40.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

41.

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

Socrates

42.

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

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

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

45.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

46.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

47.

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

Plato

48.

Of two evils, choose neither.