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

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Mary Renault

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Bible

10.

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

Claudius

11.

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

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

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

15.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

16.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

17.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

18.

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.

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.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

Phaedrus

23.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

24.

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

Carlin, George

25.

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

Bischer

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

28.

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

King Edward the Third

29.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

30.

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

James, William

31.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

34.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

35.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

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

Burroughs, William S.

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41.

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

Lerner, Max

42.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

43.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

44.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

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

Masters, Brian

46.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

47.

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

Buddha

48.

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

49.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

50.

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