Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Haydon, Benjamin

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buddha

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

10.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

12.

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.

13.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

14.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

16.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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

Bible

18.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

19.

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

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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

21.

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

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

West, Mae

24.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

25.

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

26.

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

Claudius

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, American

31.

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

Edmund Burke

32.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

Carlin, George

34.

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

35.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

36.

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

Plato

37.

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

Bischer

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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

39.

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

Simone Weil

40.

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

Homer

41.

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

Mary Renault

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

45.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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They that know no evil will suspect none.