Motivational Quotes

Evil

Of two evils, choose neither.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Baudelaire, Charles

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

13.

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

Simone Weil

14.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

17.

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

Auden, W. H.

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

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.

20.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

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

King Edward the Third

22.

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

Plato

23.

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

24.

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

Aristotle

25.

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

26.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

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

Blaise Pascal

28.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

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

James, William

30.

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.

31.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

32.

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

33.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

34.

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

Proverb, American

35.

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

Masters, Brian

36.

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

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

Edmund Burke

38.

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

Horton, Doug

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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

Eliot, George

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.

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

43.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

46.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

47.

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

48.

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

Cioran, E. M.

49.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Mae West