Motivational Quotes

Evil

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.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Aristotle

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Baudelaire, Charles

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

10.

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

Bischer

11.

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

Burroughs, William S.

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Claudius

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

Blaise Pascal

17.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

18.

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

Mary Renault

19.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

20.

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

James, William

21.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

22.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

23.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

24.

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

King Edward the Third

25.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

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

Phaedrus

27.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

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

29.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, American

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Ayn Rand

36.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

38.

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

39.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

40.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Hesiod

46.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

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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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]