Motivational Quotes

Evil

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

2.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

3.

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

Mary Renault

4.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

5.

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

Hesiod

6.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

7.

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

8.

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

Buddha

9.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

10.

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

Ayn Rand

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

12.

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

Aristotle

13.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

Crowley, Aleister

16.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

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

Masters, Brian

18.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

19.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

21.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

22.

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

23.

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

Bellow, Saul

24.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Hood, Thomas

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Phaedrus

29.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

30.

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

Socrates

31.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

32.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

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

34.

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

Lerner, Max

35.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

36.

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

Aristotle

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.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

39.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

40.

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

41.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

42.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

44.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Blaise Pascal

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible