Motivational Quotes

Evil

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

- Thomas a Kempis

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Bischer

2.

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

Hoffer, Eric

3.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

4.

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

King Edward the Third

5.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

6.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

7.

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

Mary Renault

8.

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

9.

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

Lerner, Max

10.

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

Horton, Doug

11.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

13.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

14.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

15.

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

Hesiod

16.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

Carlin, George

19.

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

Masters, Brian

20.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

21.

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

Phaedrus

22.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

23.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

27.

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

28.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

29.

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

Socrates

30.

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

James, William

31.

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

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

Auden, W. H.

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

36.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

37.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

38.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

39.

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

Aristotle

40.

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

Simone Weil

41.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

42.

Evil spelled backward is live.

43.

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

Claudius

44.

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

Bible

45.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

46.

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

47.

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

Bellow, Saul

48.

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

49.

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

Aristotle

50.

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