Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Claudius

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

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

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

Horton, Doug

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

Bible

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

Carlin, George

10.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

11.

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.

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

19.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

20.

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.

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

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

24.

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

Cioran, E. M.

25.

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

Masters, Brian

26.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

27.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

28.

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

Proverb, American

29.

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

King Edward the Third

30.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

31.

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

Weber, C. J.

32.

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

33.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

34.

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

Bischer

35.

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

Blaise Pascal

36.

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