Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

3.

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

Hesiod

4.

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

5.

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.

6.

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

Plato

7.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

8.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

9.

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

Edmund Burke

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

13.

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

Mary Renault

14.

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

Lerner, Max

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

18.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

19.

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

20.

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

Carlin, George

21.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

24.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

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.

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

27.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

28.

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

Claudius

29.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

Blaise Pascal

32.

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

33.

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

Weber, C. J.

34.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

38.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

39.

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

Hesiod

40.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

41.

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

42.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

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

Phaedrus

44.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

45.

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