Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Simone Weil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Bischer

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

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

Auden, W. H.

17.

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

18.

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

Homer

19.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

20.

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

Proverb

21.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

24.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

25.

Evil spelled backward is live.

26.

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

Socrates

27.

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

28.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

29.

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

Claudius

30.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

31.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

34.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

35.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

36.

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

Horton, Doug

37.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

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

Proverb, American

39.

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

Mary Renault

40.

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

Blaise Pascal

41.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

42.

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

Crowley, Aleister

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Phaedrus

46.

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

47.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

48.

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