Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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.

2.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

3.

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

4.

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

Edmund Burke

5.

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

Claudius

6.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

7.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

8.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

9.

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

Proverb, American

10.

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

Mary Renault

11.

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

Masters, Brian

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Blaise Pascal

14.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

15.

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

16.

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

17.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

18.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

19.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

22.

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

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

25.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

26.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

27.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

28.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

29.

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

Hesiod

30.

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

Buddha

31.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

32.

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

Carlin, George

33.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

34.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

35.

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

Proverb

36.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

38.

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

39.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

James, William

45.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

46.

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

47.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

Ayn Rand

50.

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