Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

3.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

4.

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

Crowley, Aleister

5.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

6.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

7.

Evil spelled backward is live.

8.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

9.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

10.

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

West, Mae

11.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

13.

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

Auden, W. H.

14.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

15.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

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

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

20.

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

Mary Renault

21.

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

Hood, Thomas

22.

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

23.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

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

Horton, Doug

25.

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

Blaise Pascal

26.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

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

Plato

28.

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

29.

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

Homer

30.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

31.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

32.

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

James, William

33.

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

34.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

38.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

39.

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

Hesiod

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

42.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

43.

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

Weber, C. J.

44.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

45.

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

46.

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

Lerner, Max

47.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

48.

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

Socrates

49.

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

50.

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