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

1.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

2.

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

Eliot, George

3.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

4.

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.

5.

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

Proverb

6.

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

7.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

8.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

9.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Homer

12.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

13.

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

Phaedrus

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

21.

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

Hesiod

22.

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

Plato

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Mae West

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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.

32.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

33.

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

Simone Weil

34.

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

King Edward the Third

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

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

Hesiod

37.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

Lerner, Max

40.

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

Mary Renault

41.

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

42.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

43.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

44.

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

Bischer

45.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

46.

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

Cioran, E. M.

47.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

48.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

49.

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

50.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.