Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

3.

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

Hood, Thomas

4.

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

Hesiod

5.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

8.

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

Blaise Pascal

9.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

10.

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

Auden, W. H.

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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

13.

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

Claudius

14.

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

15.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

19.

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

Burroughs, William S.

20.

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

21.

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

Bellow, Saul

22.

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

Crowley, Aleister

23.

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

Bible

24.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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

Socrates

27.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

28.

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.

29.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

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

31.

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

King Edward the Third

32.

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

Mary Renault

33.

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

Lerner, Max

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

36.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

37.

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

Horton, Doug

38.

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

Edmund Burke

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

44.

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

45.

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

Buddha

46.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

47.

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

Hesiod

48.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

49.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

50.

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