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

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

Haydon, Benjamin

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Eliot, George

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

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

Proverb, American

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

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.

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

11.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

12.

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

Cioran, E. M.

13.

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

Plato

14.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

15.

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

King Edward the Third

16.

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

Simone Weil

17.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

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

19.

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

Homer

20.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

Evil spelled backward is live.

22.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

24.

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

Masters, Brian

25.

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

26.

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

Hesiod

27.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

28.

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

29.

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

West, Mae

30.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

34.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

35.

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

Proverb

36.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

40.

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

41.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

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

James, William

44.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

46.

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.

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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

48.

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

49.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

50.

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

Burroughs, William S.