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

1.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

Auden, W. H.

5.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

6.

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

7.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

8.

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

Aristotle

9.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

13.

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

West, Mae

14.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

15.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

16.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

17.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

18.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

Mary Renault

25.

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

26.

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

Claudius

27.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

29.

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

Lerner, Max

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Horton, Doug

32.

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

Weber, C. J.

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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

James, William

35.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

36.

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

Blaise Pascal

37.

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

Homer

38.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

39.

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

40.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

44.

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

Proverb, American

45.

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

Carlin, George

46.

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