Motivational Quotes

Evil

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Homer

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

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

Masters, Brian

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

Eliot, George

10.

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

11.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

Blaise Pascal

13.

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

Carlin, George

14.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

15.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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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

17.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

18.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

19.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

21.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

Socrates

23.

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

Burroughs, William S.

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

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

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

28.

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.

29.

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

Mary Renault

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Ayn Rand

34.

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

Edmund Burke

35.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

36.

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

37.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

41.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

42.

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

Aristotle

43.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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

Plato

45.

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

Hesiod

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

48.

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

Phaedrus

49.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus