Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Hesiod

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Mae West

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

Buddha

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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

West, Mae

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Aristotle

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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

11.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

12.

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

Lerner, Max

13.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Phaedrus

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

18.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

22.

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

Crowley, Aleister

23.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

24.

Evil spelled backward is live.

25.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

26.

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

Homer

27.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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

29.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

30.

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.

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.

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

Proverb, American

33.

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

Burroughs, William S.

34.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

Bible

36.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

39.

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

Eliot, George

40.

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

41.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

42.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

43.

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

44.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

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

Bellow, Saul

46.

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

47.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

48.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

49.

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

50.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De