Motivational Quotes

Evil

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Evil

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Socrates

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Bellow, Saul

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

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

Lerner, Max

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

Carlin, George

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

Evil spelled backward is live.

10.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

Proverb, American

12.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

13.

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

Hood, Thomas

14.

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

Claudius

15.

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

16.

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

Phaedrus

17.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

18.

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

Weber, C. J.

19.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

22.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

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

Mae West

24.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Ayn Rand

27.

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

Hesiod

28.

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

Proverb

29.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

32.

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

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

35.

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

Bischer

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

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

Simone Weil

39.

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

40.

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

Edmund Burke

41.

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

42.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.