Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Lerner, Max

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

James, William

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

Edmund Burke

10.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Weber, C. J.

13.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

14.

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

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Curie, Madame Marie

18.

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

Socrates

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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

20.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

21.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

22.

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

Carlin, George

23.

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

Claudius

24.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

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

Plato

26.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

27.

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

Proverb, American

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Auden, W. H.

31.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

37.

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.

38.

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

Proverb

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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

40.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

41.

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

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Evil spelled backward is live.

43.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Eliot, George

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

47.

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.

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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

49.

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

Homer

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

Hesiod