Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Hesiod

2.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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.

5.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

6.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Erasmus, Desiderius

7.

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

Crowley, Aleister

8.

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

Mae West

9.

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

Socrates

10.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

16.

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

Cioran, E. M.

17.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

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

Claudius

19.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

Homer

21.

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

22.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

23.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Phaedrus

26.

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

Simone Weil

27.

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

28.

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

Edmund Burke

29.

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

30.

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

Mary Renault

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

35.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

36.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

Evil spelled backward is live.

38.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

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.

42.

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

Masters, Brian

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Bellow, Saul

47.

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

Burroughs, William S.

48.

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.