Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

West, Mae

2.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

3.

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

Mary Renault

4.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

5.

Evil spelled backward is live.

6.

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

7.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

8.

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

Bischer

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Lerner, Max

11.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

12.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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

15.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

22.

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

23.

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

Carlin, George

24.

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

25.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

26.

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

Homer

27.

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

Phaedrus

28.

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

Auden, W. H.

29.

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

Bellow, Saul

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

32.

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

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Weber, C. J.

36.

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

Masters, Brian

37.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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

Edmund Burke

43.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

44.

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