Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Homer

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

2.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

3.

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

Mae West

4.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

5.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

9.

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

Hesiod

10.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

12.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

13.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

14.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Hood, Thomas

18.

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

Auden, W. H.

19.

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

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Phaedrus

22.

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

23.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

24.

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

25.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Aristotle

29.

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

Buddha

30.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

34.

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

Homer

35.

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

Cioran, E. M.

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

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

Hesiod

40.

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

Masters, Brian

41.

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

42.

Evil spelled backward is live.

43.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

46.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

47.

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

Crowley, Aleister

48.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

49.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

50.

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