Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

Claudius

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

Hesiod

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

10.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

Simone Weil

15.

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

Phaedrus

16.

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

Blaise Pascal

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

22.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

23.

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

King Edward the Third

24.

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

Proverb

25.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

28.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

29.

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

30.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

32.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

33.

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

Hesiod

34.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

35.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

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

Bible

37.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

38.

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.

39.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

40.

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

Socrates

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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

42.

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

Plato

43.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

45.

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

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

47.

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

Bellow, Saul

48.

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

49.

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

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

Hesiod