Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Evil

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

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.

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

Bible

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

Cioran, E. M.

11.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

12.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

14.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

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

Plato

16.

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

Hood, Thomas

17.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

18.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

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

Carlin, George

22.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

24.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

25.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

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

Homer

27.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

28.

Evil spelled backward is live.

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

33.

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

34.

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

Blaise Pascal

35.

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.

36.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

37.

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Buddha

40.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

41.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

42.

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

43.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

44.

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

45.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

46.

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

Masters, Brian

47.

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

Proverb, American

48.

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

49.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

50.

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