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

1.

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

2.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

3.

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

Bible

4.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

5.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

6.

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

7.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

8.

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

Bischer

9.

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

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

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

Lerner, Max

13.

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

Claudius

14.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

15.

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

Hood, Thomas

16.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

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

Phaedrus

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Weber, C. J.

20.

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.

21.

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

Cioran, E. M.

22.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

23.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

24.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

Evil brings men together.

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.

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

28.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

29.

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

Hesiod

30.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

31.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Plato

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

40.

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

41.

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

King Edward the Third

42.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Socrates

48.

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

Horton, Doug

49.

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