Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Evil

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

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hesiod

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

Carlin, George

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

10.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

11.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

12.

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

Claudius

13.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.

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

Weber, C. J.

15.

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

Bischer

16.

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

17.

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

Lerner, Max

18.

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

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

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

Masters, Brian

26.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

28.

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

Homer

29.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

33.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

34.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

35.

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

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

37.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

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

Hesiod

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

Hood, Thomas

40.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

41.

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

42.

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.

Martin, Tony

43.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

44.

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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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.

48.

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

49.

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti