Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mary Renault

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

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

Socrates

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

Proverb

10.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

12.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

13.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

Plato

15.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

16.

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

17.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

18.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

19.

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

Ayn Rand

20.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

21.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

22.

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

Crowley, Aleister

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

25.

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

Bible

26.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

27.

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.

28.

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

Lerner, Max

29.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

32.

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

33.

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

King Edward the Third

34.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

35.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

36.

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

Auden, W. H.

37.

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

Hesiod

38.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

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

Masters, Brian

40.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

43.

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

44.

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

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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

46.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

47.

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

Hood, Thomas

48.

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

Simone Weil

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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.