Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Hemingway, Ernest

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Homer

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Aristotle

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

Phaedrus

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

Masters, Brian

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

10.

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

Claudius

11.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

13.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

14.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

15.

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

Mary Renault

16.

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

Burroughs, William S.

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

20.

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

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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

Mae West

23.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

24.

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

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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

West, Mae

27.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

29.

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

Weber, C. J.

30.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

31.

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

Bellow, Saul

32.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

33.

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.

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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

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

37.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

38.

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

39.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

40.

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

Eliot, George

41.

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

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

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

Hesiod

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.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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