Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

3.

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

Burroughs, William S.

4.

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

5.

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

Hesiod

6.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

7.

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

8.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

9.

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

Blaise Pascal

10.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

11.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

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

13.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

15.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

16.

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

Aristotle

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.

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

Horton, Doug

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Simone Weil

23.

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

Hesiod

24.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

26.

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

Buddha

27.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.

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

Bischer

31.

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

Auden, W. H.

32.

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

Proverb, American

33.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

34.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

35.

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

King Edward the Third

36.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

Lerner, Max

39.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Edmund Burke

43.

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

Phaedrus

44.

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

45.

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