Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

2.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

3.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

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

Bellow, Saul

5.

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.

6.

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

King Edward the Third

7.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

8.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

9.

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

10.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Mae West

14.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

15.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

16.

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

James, William

17.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

18.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

21.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

23.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

24.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

25.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

26.

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

27.

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

Masters, Brian

28.

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

Homer

29.

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

Hood, Thomas

30.

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

Hesiod

31.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

37.

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

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

40.

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

Simone Weil

41.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

42.

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

West, Mae

43.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Horton, Doug

46.

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

47.

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

Carlin, George

48.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

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

Bischer

50.

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