Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Aristotle

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Simone Weil

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

Socrates

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

Auden, W. H.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, American

10.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

11.

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

Claudius

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

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

Blaise Pascal

14.

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

Hood, Thomas

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Bellow, Saul

22.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

Buddha

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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

Phaedrus

26.

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

27.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

28.

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

Crowley, Aleister

29.

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

30.

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

31.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

32.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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

Bischer

34.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

35.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

37.

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

38.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

40.

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

41.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

42.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

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

Eliot, George

45.

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

Mary Renault

46.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

47.

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

Masters, Brian

48.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

49.

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

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

Cioran, E. M.