Motivational Quotes

Evil

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Evil

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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.

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

Aristotle

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

Bischer

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

Proverb

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

11.

Evil spelled backward is live.

12.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

13.

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

Hesiod

14.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

15.

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

16.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

19.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

20.

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

Homer

21.

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

Hood, Thomas

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

24.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

25.

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

Carlin, George

26.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

27.

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

Aristotle

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Plato

30.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

31.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

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

33.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

34.

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

Lerner, Max

35.

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

36.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

37.

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

Bellow, Saul

38.

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

Burroughs, William S.

39.

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

Auden, W. H.

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

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

Phaedrus

42.

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

Horton, Doug

43.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

45.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

46.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

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

Hesiod

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

Claudius

49.

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

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