Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Auden, W. H.

2.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

3.

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

Hood, Thomas

4.

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

Claudius

5.

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

Lerner, Max

6.

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

7.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

8.

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

Bellow, Saul

9.

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

Mary Renault

10.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

11.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

James, William

14.

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

Masters, Brian

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

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

20.

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

21.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

22.

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

Ayn Rand

23.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

24.

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.

25.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

26.

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

Plato

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.

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

Buddha

29.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

30.

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

31.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

32.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

33.

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.

34.

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

Carlin, George

35.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

36.

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

Hoffer, Eric

37.

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

38.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

39.

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

Proverb, American

40.

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

41.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

42.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

43.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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

Horton, Doug

46.

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

47.

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

Hesiod

48.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

49.

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

50.

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