Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bischer

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

2.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

3.

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

4.

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

Proverb

5.

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

Horton, Doug

6.

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

Bellow, Saul

7.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

8.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

9.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

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

Carlin, George

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

Cioran, E. M.

13.

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

Crowley, Aleister

14.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, American

17.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Hood, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

Edmund Burke

23.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

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

Phaedrus

25.

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

Hesiod

26.

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

27.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

28.

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

Simone Weil

29.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

30.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

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

32.

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

Masters, Brian

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

35.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

36.

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

Plato

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

39.

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

Claudius

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

47.

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

Weber, C. J.

48.

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