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.

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

King Edward the Third

2.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

3.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

4.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

5.

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

6.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

7.

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

Claudius

8.

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

Eliot, George

9.

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

Homer

10.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

12.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

14.

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

Simone Weil

15.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

16.

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

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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.

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

Blaise Pascal

20.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

21.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Crowley, Aleister

24.

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

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

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

Masters, Brian

27.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

30.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

31.

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

Buddha

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

34.

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

35.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

36.

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

Carlin, George

37.

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

Weber, C. J.

38.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

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

Horton, Doug

41.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

42.

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

43.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

44.

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

45.

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

Cioran, E. M.

46.

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

Phaedrus

47.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

48.

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