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.

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

Plato

2.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

3.

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

4.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

5.

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

6.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

9.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

10.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

Ayn Rand

13.

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

Eliot, George

14.

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

Hood, Thomas

15.

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

Horton, Doug

16.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

17.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

18.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

25.

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

James, William

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.

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

Phaedrus

28.

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

Crowley, Aleister

29.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

33.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

34.

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

35.

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

Hesiod

36.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

37.

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

38.

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

Blaise Pascal

39.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

41.

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