Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Mae West

Best Quotes about Evil

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Lerner, Max

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Proverb

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

10.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

11.

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

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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.

14.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

15.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

16.

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.

17.

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

Bellow, Saul

18.

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

James, William

19.

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

Horton, Doug

20.

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

Proverb, American

21.

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

22.

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

Ayn Rand

23.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

24.

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

25.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

26.

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

Cioran, E. M.

27.

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

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

32.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

33.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

34.

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

Hood, Thomas

35.

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

Bischer

36.

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

Claudius

37.

Evil spelled backward is live.

38.

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

Carlin, George

39.

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

Phaedrus

40.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

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

Mae West

42.

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

Auden, W. H.

43.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

44.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

45.

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

Buddha

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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

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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