Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Edmund Burke

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

James, William

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

Plato

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

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

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

10.

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

West, Mae

11.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

12.

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

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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

15.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

16.

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

Claudius

17.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

18.

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

19.

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

Lerner, Max

20.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

21.

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

King Edward the Third

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

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

Cioran, E. M.

24.

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

Weber, C. J.

25.

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

Buddha

26.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

27.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

28.

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

29.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

30.

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

Masters, Brian

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, American

33.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

38.

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

Horton, Doug

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

44.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

45.

There is no bad in good.