Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hood, Thomas

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

James, William

2.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

3.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

4.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

5.

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

Aristotle

6.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

7.

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

Hood, Thomas

8.

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

9.

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

Proverb, American

10.

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

Blaise Pascal

11.

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

Cioran, E. M.

12.

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

Crowley, Aleister

13.

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

Horton, Doug

14.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

15.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

16.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

18.

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

Carlin, George

19.

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

Socrates

20.

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

21.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Bischer

24.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

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

Mary Renault

26.

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

27.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

28.

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

29.

Evil spelled backward is live.

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

33.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

34.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

35.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Claudius

39.

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

40.

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

Plato

41.

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

Auden, W. H.

42.

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

Voltaire

43.

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

Weber, C. J.

44.

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

Homer

45.

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

46.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

47.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

48.

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

Mae West

49.

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

50.

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.