Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Mae West

Best Quotes about Evil

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

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

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

Hesiod

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Simone Weil

12.

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

Mae West

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Carlin, George

16.

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

Bible

17.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

18.

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

Bellow, Saul

19.

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

Buddha

20.

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

21.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

22.

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

23.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

24.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

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

King Edward the Third

26.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

27.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

28.

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

Proverb, American

29.

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

James, William

30.

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

Bischer

31.

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

Bible

32.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

33.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

34.

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

35.

Evil spelled backward is live.

36.

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

37.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

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

Ayn Rand

42.

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

43.

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

Hesiod

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Weber, C. J.

47.

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

Cioran, E. M.

48.

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

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