Motivational Quotes

Evil

No evil shall happen to the just.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Horton, Doug

2.

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

3.

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

Bischer

4.

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

5.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

6.

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

7.

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

Hoffer, Eric

8.

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

9.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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.

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.

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

16.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

18.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

19.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

20.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

23.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

27.

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

28.

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

Plato

29.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

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

33.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

34.

Evil spelled backward is live.

35.

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

Edmund Burke

36.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

37.

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

Weber, C. J.

38.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

39.

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

Eliot, George

40.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

41.

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

Homer

42.

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