Motivational Quotes

Evil

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

2.

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

James, William

3.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

4.

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

5.

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

Bellow, Saul

6.

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

Buddha

7.

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

Blaise Pascal

8.

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

Proverb

9.

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

Hesiod

10.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

11.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

13.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

15.

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

Bible

16.

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.

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

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

Hesiod

19.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

West, Mae

25.

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

Simone Weil

26.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

27.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

28.

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

Proverb, American

29.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

30.

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

31.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

32.

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

Crowley, Aleister

33.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Masters, Brian

35.

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

Ayn Rand

36.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

37.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

38.

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.

39.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

40.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

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

42.

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

43.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

44.

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

Lerner, Max

45.

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

Homer

46.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Weber, C. J.

50.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre