Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Blaise Pascal

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

2.

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

Weber, C. J.

3.

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

Hesiod

4.

Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

6.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Cioran, E. M.

11.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

12.

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

Aristotle

13.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

14.

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

15.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

20.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

21.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

22.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

23.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

26.

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

27.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

28.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

29.

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

30.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

33.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

34.

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

Bellow, Saul

35.

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

Carlin, George

36.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

37.

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.

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

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

Mae West

41.

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

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

45.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

46.

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

Bischer

47.

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

West, Mae

48.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.