Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

2.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

3.

Evil spelled backward is live.

4.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

5.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

6.

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

7.

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

Mary Renault

8.

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

Lerner, Max

9.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

13.

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

Bellow, Saul

14.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

15.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

16.

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

James, William

17.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Ayn Rand

25.

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

26.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

27.

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

Weber, C. J.

28.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

29.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Horton, Doug

34.

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

35.

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

Mae West

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

38.

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

King Edward the Third

39.

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

Aristotle

40.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

41.

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

42.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Hood, Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

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

Carlin, George

49.

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

Edmund Burke

50.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.