Motivational Quotes

Evil

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

- Edward II

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2.

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

Socrates

3.

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

4.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

5.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

6.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

7.

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

8.

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

Aristotle

9.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Hesiod

11.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

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

14.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

15.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

16.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

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

Bischer

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

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

West, Mae

20.

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

Proverb

21.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

22.

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

Phaedrus

23.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

24.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

25.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

26.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

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

Proverb, American

28.

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

Masters, Brian

29.

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.

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Homer

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

36.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

37.

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

Hood, Thomas

38.

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

Edmund Burke

39.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

Aristotle

44.

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

45.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

46.

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

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

Simone Weil

49.

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

50.

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