Motivational Quotes

Evil

No evil shall happen to the just.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

2.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

3.

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

4.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

5.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

6.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

7.

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

Phaedrus

8.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

9.

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

Proverb, American

10.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Masters, Brian

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

17.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

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

19.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

20.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

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.

24.

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

Auden, W. H.

25.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

26.

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

27.

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

28.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

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

34.

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

Mary Renault

35.

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

Hood, Thomas

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

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

Buddha

38.

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

King Edward the Third

39.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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.

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

James, William

42.

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

Bellow, Saul

43.

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

Claudius

44.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

45.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

46.

Evil spelled backward is live.

47.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

48.

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

49.

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

Aristotle

50.

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.