Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Ayn Rand

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb, American

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

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Evil spelled backward is live.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

James, William

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Horton, Doug

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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

11.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

12.

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

Bellow, Saul

13.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

14.

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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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

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

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

Eliot, George

18.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

19.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

20.

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

Carlin, George

21.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

22.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

23.

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

24.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

26.

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

Phaedrus

27.

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

King Edward the Third

28.

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

Homer

29.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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.

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

32.

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

Plato

33.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

34.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

35.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

40.

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

41.

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

Mary Renault

42.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

43.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

44.

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