Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Burroughs, William S.

2.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

3.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

4.

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

Aristotle

5.

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

Hesiod

6.

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

Masters, Brian

7.

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

Homer

8.

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

Hesiod

9.

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

King Edward the Third

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

12.

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

Simone Weil

13.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

14.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

15.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

Claudius

18.

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

19.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

Bellow, Saul

21.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Edmund Burke

28.

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

Mae West

29.

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

30.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

35.

Evil spelled backward is live.

36.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

37.

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

West, Mae

38.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

41.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

42.

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

Aristotle

43.

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

44.

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

Socrates

45.

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

Ayn Rand

46.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

James, William

49.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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