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

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

Bible

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

Horton, Doug

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

Weber, C. J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maistre, Joseph De

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Plato

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

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

14.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

17.

Evil spelled backward is live.

18.

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

19.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

20.

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

Cioran, E. M.

21.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

22.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

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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

24.

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

Simone Weil

25.

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

Hesiod

26.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

27.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

31.

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.

32.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Crowley, Aleister

36.

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

West, Mae

37.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

38.

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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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.

40.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

41.

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

Socrates

42.

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

Bellow, Saul

43.

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

King Edward the Third

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 enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

46.

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Homer

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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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

50.

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