Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Masters, Brian

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Aristotle

2.

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

3.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

4.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

5.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

6.

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

7.

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

Phaedrus

8.

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

9.

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Horton, Doug

11.

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

12.

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

Crowley, Aleister

13.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

14.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

15.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

16.

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

Masters, Brian

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

19.

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

West, Mae

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Bischer

22.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

23.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

27.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Hesiod

31.

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

Edmund Burke

32.

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

Burroughs, William S.

33.

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

34.

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

Hood, Thomas

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

37.

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

Buddha

38.

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

Claudius

39.

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.

40.

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

Hesiod

41.

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

Mae West

42.

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

43.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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

Bellow, Saul

45.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

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.