Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Baudelaire, Charles

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Ayn Rand

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

13.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

14.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

15.

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

16.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

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.

18.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

19.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

20.

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

Weber, C. J.

21.

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

22.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

23.

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

Edmund Burke

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb

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.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

28.

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

29.

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

Phaedrus

30.

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

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Mae West

32.

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

Lerner, Max

33.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Buddha

35.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

36.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

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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

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Bellow, Saul

42.

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

Claudius

43.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

44.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

45.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

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

47.

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

Auden, W. H.

48.

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

Simone Weil

49.

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

50.

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

Aurelius, Marcus