Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

3.

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

Phaedrus

4.

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

Plato

5.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

6.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

7.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Claudius

8.

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

West, Mae

9.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

Crowley, Aleister

11.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

12.

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

13.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

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

King Edward the Third

15.

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

James, William

16.

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

Mae West

17.

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

18.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

19.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

20.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

26.

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

27.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

28.

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

29.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

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

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

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

Ayn Rand

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

36.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

37.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

38.

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

39.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

42.

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