Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

2.

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

3.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

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.

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

Bellow, Saul

6.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

8.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

9.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

10.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

11.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

12.

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

Edmund Burke

13.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

14.

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

Plato

15.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

17.

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

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

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

Homer

20.

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

West, Mae

21.

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

Crowley, Aleister

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Lerner, Max

24.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

25.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

26.

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.

27.

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

Buddha

28.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

32.

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

Bible

33.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

34.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

35.

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

Cioran, E. M.

36.

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.

37.

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

Auden, W. H.

38.

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

39.

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

Mary Renault

40.

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

Carlin, George

41.

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

42.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

43.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

44.

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

45.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

46.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

47.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

48.

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

49.

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

Hesiod

50.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug