Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Haydon, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Hesiod

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

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

Mae West

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Aristotle

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

10.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

11.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

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

13.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

14.

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

15.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

16.

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

Proverb

18.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

19.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

20.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

21.

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

Simone Weil

22.

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

Hood, Thomas

23.

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

Weber, C. J.

24.

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

Cioran, E. M.

25.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

26.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

27.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

28.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Plato

32.

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.

33.

Evil spelled backward is live.

34.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

35.

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

36.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

40.

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

41.

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

Masters, Brian

42.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

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

Lerner, Max

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