Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- James, William

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.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.

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

Claudius

4.

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

Horton, Doug

5.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

6.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

7.

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

8.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

9.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

10.

Evil spelled backward is live.

11.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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

Mae West

14.

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

Lerner, Max

15.

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

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

18.

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

Buddha

19.

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

Phaedrus

20.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

23.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

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

James, William

25.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

Burroughs, William S.

29.

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

30.

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

Crowley, Aleister

31.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

36.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

37.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

39.

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

Carlin, George

40.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

41.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

42.

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.

43.

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

Masters, Brian

44.

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

Hoffer, Eric

45.

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

Homer

46.

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