Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

Hesiod

3.

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

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.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

6.

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

Hoffer, Eric

7.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

8.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

9.

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

10.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

12.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

13.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Socrates

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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.

18.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

19.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

20.

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

Masters, Brian

21.

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

Buddha

22.

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

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

26.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

27.

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

Mae West

28.

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

Homer

29.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

30.

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

Horton, Doug

31.

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

Auden, W. H.

32.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

34.

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

Carlin, George

35.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

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

Edmund Burke

43.

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

Aristotle

44.

Evil draws men together.