Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Lerner, Max

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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.

2.

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

3.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

4.

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

5.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

6.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

7.

Evil spelled backward is live.

8.

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

Carlin, George

9.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

18.

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

19.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

20.

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

21.

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

Auden, W. H.

22.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

23.

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.

24.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

25.

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

Buddha

26.

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

Hesiod

27.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

28.

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

Weber, C. J.

29.

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

Edmund Burke

30.

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

Homer

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Hoffer, Eric

33.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

34.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

35.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

36.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Crowley, Aleister

39.

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

Phaedrus

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

42.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

45.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

46.

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

King Edward the Third

47.

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

Plato

48.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

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

Hesiod

50.

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