Motivational Quotes

Evil

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

- Evelyn Underhill

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Bischer

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

Lerner, Max

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mary Renault

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Edmund Burke

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

10.

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

11.

Evil spelled backward is live.

12.

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

13.

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

Hoffer, Eric

14.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

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

Burroughs, William S.

17.

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

18.

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

Phaedrus

19.

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

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

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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

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

26.

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

27.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

28.

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

29.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

30.

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

Hesiod

31.

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

Claudius

32.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

33.

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

Cioran, E. M.

34.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

35.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

38.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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

40.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

41.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

42.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

43.

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

Horton, Doug

44.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

45.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

46.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

47.

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

48.

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

Homer

49.

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.