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

1.

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

Simone Weil

2.

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

Auden, W. H.

3.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

4.

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

Weber, C. J.

5.

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

West, Mae

6.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

7.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

9.

Evil spelled backward is live.

10.

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

11.

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

Mary Renault

12.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

13.

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.

14.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

15.

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

Edmund Burke

16.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

18.

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

19.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

20.

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

Bible

21.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

22.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

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

Masters, Brian

24.

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

King Edward the Third

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Bischer

29.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

30.

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

Homer

31.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Blaise Pascal

35.

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

Phaedrus

36.

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

Cioran, E. M.

37.

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

Plato

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

47.

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

48.

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

Aristotle

49.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

50.

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

Socrates