Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Hesiod

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

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

Claudius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

10.

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

11.

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

Bible

12.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

15.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

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

Hesiod

18.

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

Cioran, E. M.

19.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

20.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Proverb, American

27.

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

28.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

29.

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

Simone Weil

30.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

31.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

32.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

36.

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

Voltaire

37.

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

Weber, C. J.

38.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

39.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

40.

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

King Edward the Third

41.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

42.

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

Mary Renault

43.

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

44.

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

Phaedrus

45.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

46.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

47.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

48.

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

49.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

50.

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