Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Carlin, George

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Crowley, Aleister

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Burroughs, William S.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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

The love of evil is the root of all money.

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

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

West, Mae

13.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

14.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

15.

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

Plato

16.

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

Hesiod

17.

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

Buddha

18.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

19.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

22.

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

Mae West

23.

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

Aristotle

24.

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

25.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

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

27.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

28.

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

Bischer

29.

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

Weber, C. J.

30.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

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

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Proverb

35.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

36.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

37.

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

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

40.

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

Auden, W. H.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

46.

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

Simone Weil

47.

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

48.

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

Masters, Brian

49.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

50.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques