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

Baudelaire, Charles

2.

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

Proverb, American

3.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

4.

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

5.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

6.

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

Carlin, George

7.

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

8.

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

West, Mae

9.

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

Proverb

10.

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

Homer

11.

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

Burroughs, William S.

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

14.

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

15.

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

Simone Weil

16.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

17.

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

Hesiod

18.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

Crowley, Aleister

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

23.

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.

24.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

Evil spelled backward is live.

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

34.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

35.

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

Masters, Brian

36.

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

37.

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

39.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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

Lerner, Max

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Mae West

45.

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

King Edward the Third

46.

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

47.

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

Weber, C. J.

48.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

49.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

50.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]