Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

2.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

Phaedrus

4.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

5.

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

Homer

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

Mary Renault

9.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

10.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

12.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

13.

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

14.

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

Blaise Pascal

15.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

16.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

17.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

18.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

19.

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

Eliot, George

20.

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

21.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

22.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

25.

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

Aristotle

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.

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

Masters, Brian

28.

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

29.

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

Simone Weil

30.

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

Proverb, American

31.

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

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

West, Mae

34.

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

Auden, W. H.

35.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

36.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

37.

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

Cioran, E. M.

38.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

39.

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

Claudius

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

42.

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.

43.

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

King Edward the Third

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Carlin, George

46.

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

Proverb

47.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

50.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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