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

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

Phaedrus

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

Maistre, Joseph De

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

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

Masters, Brian

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Curie, Madame Marie

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

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

Homer

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

Horton, Doug

14.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

15.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

16.

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

17.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

18.

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

Plato

19.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Carlin, George

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

29.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

30.

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

31.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

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

Lerner, Max

36.

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

37.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

38.

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.

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

41.

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

Aristotle

42.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

43.

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

James, William

44.

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

45.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

46.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

47.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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