Motivational Quotes

Evil

There is no bad in good.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Plato

2.

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

Hesiod

3.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

4.

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

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Aristotle

7.

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

Edmund Burke

8.

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

Weber, C. J.

9.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

10.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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.

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.

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

16.

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

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

19.

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

Cioran, E. M.

20.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

21.

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

22.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

23.

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

24.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

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

Bellow, Saul

30.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

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

Claudius

34.

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

Phaedrus

35.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

36.

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

Bischer

37.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

James, William

42.

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

Mae West

43.

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

44.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

45.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

46.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

47.

They that know no evil will suspect none.