Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Chapman, Maria Weston

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Hesiod

2.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.

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

King Edward the Third

4.

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

5.

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

Bible

6.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

11.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

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

Bischer

13.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

15.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

21.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

22.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

23.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, American

27.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

28.

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

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Plato

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

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

Claudius

33.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

34.

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

Bellow, Saul

35.

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

Homer

36.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

37.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

38.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

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

Blaise Pascal

40.

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

41.

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

Horton, Doug

42.

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

Socrates

43.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

44.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.