Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

Phaedrus

3.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

6.

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

Proverb

7.

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

8.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

9.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

10.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

11.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

12.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

13.

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

Hood, Thomas

14.

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

Crowley, Aleister

15.

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

16.

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

Homer

17.

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

Horton, Doug

18.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

19.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

20.

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

21.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Lerner, Max

28.

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

Auden, W. H.

29.

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

Cioran, E. M.

30.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

34.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

35.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

38.

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

Proverb, American

39.

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

40.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

41.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

42.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

43.

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

James, William

44.

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

Weber, C. J.

45.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

46.

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

47.

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

48.

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

Plato

49.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

50.

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