Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Carlin, George

2.

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

Aristotle

3.

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

Buddha

4.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

5.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

6.

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

7.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

8.

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

Lerner, Max

9.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Weber, C. J.

12.

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

Phaedrus

13.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Haydon, Benjamin

18.

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

Claudius

19.

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

20.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

21.

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

Bischer

22.

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

Mae West

23.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

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

James, William

26.

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

Bellow, Saul

27.

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

Mary Renault

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

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

King Edward the Third

30.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

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

Blaise Pascal

32.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

36.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

37.

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

West, Mae

38.

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

Masters, Brian

39.

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

40.

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

Hood, Thomas

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

46.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

47.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

48.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

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

Ayn Rand

50.

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