Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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.

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

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

Bible

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

King Edward the Third

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

10.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

11.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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

Proverb, American

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Horton, Doug

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

22.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

23.

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

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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

25.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

26.

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

West, Mae

27.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

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

Phaedrus

29.

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

Blaise Pascal

30.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

31.

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

Buddha

32.

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

Eliot, George

33.

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

34.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

35.

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

36.

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

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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Carlin, George

40.

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

Burroughs, William S.

41.

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

Crowley, Aleister

42.

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

Aristotle

43.

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

Aristotle

44.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

45.

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

Bellow, Saul

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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

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

Weber, C. J.