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

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

Mae West

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Darwin, Charles R.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Socrates

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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.

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.

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

Weber, C. J.

14.

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

West, Mae

15.

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

Cioran, E. M.

16.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

17.

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

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

Lerner, Max

23.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

24.

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.

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

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.

27.

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

Bible

28.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

29.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

31.

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

Eliot, George

32.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

33.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

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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

37.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

38.

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

Hood, Thomas

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

Haydon, Benjamin

40.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

41.

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

Horton, Doug

42.

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

Hesiod

43.

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

Masters, Brian

44.

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

King Edward the Third

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

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

Phaedrus

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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

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