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.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

3.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

4.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

5.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

6.

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

Hood, Thomas

7.

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

Homer

8.

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

Claudius

9.

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

Phaedrus

10.

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

Hesiod

11.

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

Lerner, Max

12.

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

13.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

14.

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

Horton, Doug

15.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

16.

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

17.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

18.

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

19.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

20.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

21.

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

Mae West

22.

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

Cioran, E. M.

23.

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

West, Mae

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Edmund Burke

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Proverb

31.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

32.

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

Burroughs, William S.

33.

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

Weber, C. J.

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

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

36.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

37.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

Simone Weil

39.

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

Bellow, Saul

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

43.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

44.

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

Hesiod

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

49.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

50.

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