Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

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

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

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

10.

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

Lerner, Max

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

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

Mary Renault

14.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

17.

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

18.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

19.

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

Cioran, E. M.

20.

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

21.

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

Claudius

22.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

23.

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

24.

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

Hesiod

25.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

26.

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

Crowley, Aleister

27.

Evil spelled backward is live.

28.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

29.

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

West, Mae

30.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

31.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

32.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Hood, Thomas

37.

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

38.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

39.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

40.

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

King Edward the Third

41.

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