Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

2.

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

Phaedrus

3.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

4.

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

King Edward the Third

5.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

6.

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

West, Mae

7.

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

Weber, C. J.

8.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

9.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

Burroughs, William S.

11.

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

12.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

13.

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

Cioran, E. M.

14.

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

Aristotle

15.

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

James, William

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

18.

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

19.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

20.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

21.

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

Edmund Burke

22.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

23.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

26.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

27.

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

28.

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

Hoffer, Eric

29.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

30.

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

31.

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

Homer

32.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

33.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

34.

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

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Auden, W. H.

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Lerner, Max

38.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

39.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

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

Eliot, George

41.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

42.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

43.

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

44.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

45.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

46.

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

Simone Weil

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

49.

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

Aristotle

50.

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