Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil draws men together.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

2.

Evil spelled backward is live.

3.

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

Hesiod

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Auden, W. H.

7.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

8.

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

9.

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.

10.

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

Ayn Rand

11.

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

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Mary Renault

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

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

16.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

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.

18.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

19.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

20.

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

Mae West

21.

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

Lerner, Max

22.

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

Edmund Burke

23.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

27.

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

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

30.

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

Claudius

31.

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

32.

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

West, Mae

33.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

34.

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

35.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

36.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

37.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

38.

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

Horton, Doug

39.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.

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

Eliot, George

41.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

42.

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

Socrates

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.

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

Plato

45.

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

46.

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

Blaise Pascal

47.

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

Bible

48.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

49.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

50.

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