Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Claudius

Best Quotes about Evil

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

King Edward the Third

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

Hoffer, Eric

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Hesiod

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

Phaedrus

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

Mary Renault

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

Proverb, American

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

11.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

12.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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.

14.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

15.

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

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

19.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

20.

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

Blaise Pascal

21.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

28.

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

29.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Lerner, Max

32.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

33.

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

Masters, Brian

34.

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

Hesiod

35.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

36.

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

Weber, C. J.

37.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

Carlin, George

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Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

40.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41.

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

Hood, Thomas

42.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

43.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

44.

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

45.

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

Socrates

46.

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

47.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

48.

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

Proverb

49.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

50.

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