Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Cioran, E. M.

2.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

3.

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

Hesiod

4.

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

5.

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

West, Mae

6.

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

Crowley, Aleister

7.

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

Bible

8.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

9.

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

Blaise Pascal

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

Simone Weil

13.

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

Hood, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Masters, Brian

16.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

19.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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.

22.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

23.

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

Bischer

24.

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

King Edward the Third

25.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

27.

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

Proverb, American

28.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

29.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

30.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

31.

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

James, William

32.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Horton, Doug

36.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

37.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

40.

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

Edmund Burke

41.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Hesiod

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Bellow, Saul

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

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

Claudius