Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

Hesiod

3.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

4.

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

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

Phaedrus

7.

Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

8.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

9.

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

Claudius

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

14.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

Hesiod

17.

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

James, William

18.

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

Buddha

19.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

21.

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

22.

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

West, Mae

23.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

24.

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

Edmund Burke

25.

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

Cioran, E. M.

26.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

28.

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

Mary Renault

29.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

30.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

31.

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

32.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.

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

Hood, Thomas

34.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

38.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

39.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

44.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

45.

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

46.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

47.

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

48.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

49.

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