Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

4.

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

Weber, C. J.

5.

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

Mae West

6.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

7.

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

Socrates

8.

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

9.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

10.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

11.

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

West, Mae

12.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

13.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

14.

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

Horton, Doug

15.

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

16.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

19.

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

20.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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

Masters, Brian

23.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

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

Plato

25.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

26.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

27.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

28.

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

Simone Weil

29.

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

Lerner, Max

30.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

31.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

35.

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

James, William

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

Hesiod

42.

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

Buddha

43.

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

Cioran, E. M.

44.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

45.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

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

47.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

Bible

50.

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

Proverb