Motivational Quotes

Evil

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

2.

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

Buddha

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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

Phaedrus

6.

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

Bellow, Saul

7.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

8.

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

Bischer

9.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

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

11.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

12.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

13.

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

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

17.

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

Masters, Brian

18.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

22.

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

23.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

25.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

26.

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

Plato

27.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

28.

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

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

31.

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

32.

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

Mae West

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

35.

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

36.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

37.

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

King Edward the Third

38.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

39.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

42.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

44.

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

Carlin, George

45.

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

Cioran, E. M.

46.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

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

Edmund Burke

48.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

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

Weber, C. J.

50.

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