Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Bible

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

Socrates

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

Masters, Brian

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Buddha

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

Proverb, American

10.

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

Bischer

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

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

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

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

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

22.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

23.

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

Weber, C. J.

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

26.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

27.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

28.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

29.

Evil spelled backward is live.

30.

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

King Edward the Third

31.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

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

33.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Baudelaire, Charles

38.

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

39.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

40.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

43.

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.

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.

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

Bellow, Saul

46.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

47.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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