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

1.

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

2.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

3.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

4.

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

5.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

6.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

7.

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

8.

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

Eliot, George

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

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

Phaedrus

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Plato

18.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

20.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

21.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

22.

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

23.

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

Ayn Rand

24.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Aristotle

28.

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

29.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

30.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

31.

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

Bellow, Saul

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

Carlin, George

34.

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

35.

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

Masters, Brian

36.

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

37.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

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

39.

Evil spelled backward is live.

40.

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

Bible

41.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

42.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem