Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

2.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

3.

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

Edmund Burke

4.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

5.

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

Ayn Rand

6.

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

Plato

7.

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

Aristotle

8.

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.

9.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

James, William

15.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

16.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

17.

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

Bischer

18.

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

Phaedrus

19.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

20.

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

Hesiod

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

28.

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

Mae West

29.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

33.

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

34.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

Mary Renault

36.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

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

Auden, W. H.

39.

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

Horton, Doug

40.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Evil spelled backward is live.

45.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

46.

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

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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

49.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

50.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon