Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

3.

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

4.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

5.

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

Homer

6.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

7.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

8.

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

Plato

9.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

12.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

13.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

14.

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

Auden, W. H.

15.

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

Bible

16.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

18.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

19.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

20.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

21.

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

22.

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

23.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

24.

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

Crowley, Aleister

25.

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.

26.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

27.

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

Mae West

28.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

Mary Renault

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Eliot, George

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

34.

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

Bellow, Saul

35.

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

Phaedrus

36.

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

King Edward the Third

37.

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

Claudius

38.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

39.

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

Carlin, George

40.

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

Socrates

41.

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

42.

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

43.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

44.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

45.

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

Blaise Pascal

46.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.