Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

2.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

3.

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

Horton, Doug

4.

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

5.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

6.

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

Bischer

7.

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

Auden, W. H.

8.

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

Hesiod

9.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

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

Bellow, Saul

13.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

14.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

15.

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

16.

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

17.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

18.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

21.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

22.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

23.

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

24.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

25.

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

West, Mae

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Lerner, Max

32.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

33.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

34.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

35.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

39.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

40.

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

41.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

42.

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.

Euripides

43.

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

44.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, American

47.

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

Proverb

48.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

49.

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

Hesiod

50.

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