Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Hesiod

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

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

10.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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.

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

18.

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.

19.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

21.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

22.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

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

26.

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

27.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

28.

Evil spelled backward is live.

29.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

30.

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

Bischer

31.

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

32.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

34.

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

Weber, C. J.

35.

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

Plato

36.

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

Hood, Thomas

37.

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

Claudius

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

39.

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

Carlin, George

40.

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

West, Mae

41.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

42.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

43.

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

Edmund Burke

44.

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

Hesiod

45.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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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

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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

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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

49.

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

Horton, Doug

50.

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