Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

King Edward the Third

2.

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

3.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

4.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

7.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

8.

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.

9.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

10.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

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

18.

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

Bellow, Saul

19.

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

20.

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

Voltaire

21.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

22.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

23.

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

Phaedrus

24.

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

25.

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

Hood, Thomas

26.

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

Crowley, Aleister

27.

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

Lerner, Max

28.

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

Simone Weil

29.

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

30.

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

Carlin, George

31.

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

Claudius

32.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

34.

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

Auden, W. H.

35.

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

Cioran, E. M.

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

38.

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

West, Mae

39.

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

Masters, Brian

40.

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

James, William

41.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

42.

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

43.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

44.

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

45.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

47.

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

48.

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

Homer

49.

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

Proverb, American

50.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky