Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hesiod

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

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

West, Mae

10.

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

James, William

11.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

15.

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

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

Auden, W. H.

17.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

18.

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

19.

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

Ayn Rand

20.

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

Hesiod

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

Evil spelled backward is live.

23.

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

Mae West

24.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

30.

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

31.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

32.

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

Burroughs, William S.

33.

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

Mary Renault

34.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

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

37.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

38.

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

Bellow, Saul

39.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

40.

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

King Edward the Third

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

43.

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

Phaedrus

44.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

45.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

46.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

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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

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

49.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

50.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson