Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Bischer

Best Quotes about Evil

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Aristotle

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

10.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

Proverb, American

12.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

13.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

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Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

18.

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

Bible

19.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

20.

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

Simone Weil

21.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

22.

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

23.

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

West, Mae

24.

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

Hesiod

25.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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

Carlin, George

27.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Blaise Pascal

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 nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Bellow, Saul

34.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

35.

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

King Edward the Third

36.

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

Hesiod

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

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

42.

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

43.

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

Hesiod

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Claudius

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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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

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

49.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.