Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

King Edward the Third

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

10.

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

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.

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

Proverb

13.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

14.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

15.

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

Weber, C. J.

16.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

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.

18.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

19.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

20.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

24.

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

Hesiod

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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

Socrates

27.

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

28.

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

Carlin, George

29.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

30.

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

31.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

Crowley, Aleister

33.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Hesiod

37.

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

Horton, Doug

38.

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

Bible

39.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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

Hood, Thomas

41.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

42.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

43.

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

Simone Weil

44.

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

Eliot, George

45.

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

46.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

47.

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

48.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

49.

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

Bischer

50.

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

Aristotle