Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

Hood, Thomas

3.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

4.

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

Ayn Rand

5.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

6.

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

Hesiod

7.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

8.

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

Cioran, E. M.

9.

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

Simone Weil

10.

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

Mae West

11.

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

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.

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

14.

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

Mary Renault

15.

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

Burroughs, William S.

16.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

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

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

Hesiod

21.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

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

Bischer

24.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

28.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

30.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

32.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

33.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

34.

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

Socrates

35.

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

Hoffer, Eric

36.

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

James, William

37.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

Edmund Burke

40.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

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

42.

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

43.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

44.

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

Aristotle

45.

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

46.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

47.

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.

48.

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

Blaise Pascal

49.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

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