Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

2.

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

3.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

4.

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

5.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

6.

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

Proverb, American

7.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

8.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

9.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

10.

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

Buddha

11.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

12.

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

Claudius

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Aristotle

15.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

19.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

24.

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.

25.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

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

Plato

27.

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

28.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

29.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

30.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

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

Masters, Brian

33.

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

Bellow, Saul

34.

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

35.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Ayn Rand

39.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

40.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

41.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

42.

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

43.

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

Mae West

44.

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

Carlin, George

45.

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

46.

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