Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

10.

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

Crowley, Aleister

11.

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

Plato

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Phaedrus

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

Claudius

16.

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

Bellow, Saul

17.

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

18.

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

Carlin, George

19.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

20.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

21.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

22.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

23.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

24.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

25.

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

26.

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

Ayn Rand

27.

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

Blaise Pascal

28.

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

29.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

31.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Hood, Thomas

36.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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 a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

39.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

40.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

41.

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

West, Mae

42.

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

Masters, Brian

43.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

44.

Evil spelled backward is live.

45.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

46.

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

Eliot, George

47.

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

48.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

49.

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

Voltaire

50.

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