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.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

2.

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

Burroughs, William S.

3.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

4.

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

Phaedrus

5.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

6.

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

Cioran, E. M.

7.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

8.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

9.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

12.

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

13.

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

Blaise Pascal

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

16.

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

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

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

Bellow, Saul

19.

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

Simone Weil

20.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

21.

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

Socrates

22.

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

King Edward the Third

23.

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

Crowley, Aleister

24.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Evil spelled backward is live.

30.

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

Bischer

31.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

32.

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

33.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

34.

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

Ayn Rand

35.

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

36.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

37.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

43.

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

44.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

45.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

46.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

47.

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