Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Burroughs, William S.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Baudelaire, Charles

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

West, Mae

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

10.

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

Homer

11.

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

12.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

13.

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

Claudius

14.

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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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

16.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

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

Mary Renault

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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.

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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

22.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

23.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

24.

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

Proverb

25.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

26.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

28.

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

Edmund Burke

29.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

31.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

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

33.

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

Socrates

34.

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

Phaedrus

35.

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.

36.

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

Hood, Thomas

37.

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

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

40.

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

Auden, W. H.

41.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

42.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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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

44.

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

Buddha

45.

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

Horton, Doug

46.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

47.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

49.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid