Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Claudius

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

2.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

3.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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 draws men together.

Aristotle

6.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

Auden, W. H.

8.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

9.

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

10.

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

Claudius

11.

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

Carlin, George

12.

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

Socrates

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

15.

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

Buddha

16.

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

Lerner, Max

17.

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

Plato

18.

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

Phaedrus

19.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

20.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

21.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

22.

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

Horton, Doug

23.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

24.

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.

25.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

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

Hesiod

27.

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

Simone Weil

28.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

29.

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

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

34.

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

Homer

35.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

36.

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

Bischer

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Burroughs, William S.

41.

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

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

44.

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

Aristotle

45.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

46.

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

47.

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

Bellow, Saul

48.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

49.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

50.

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