Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

2.

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

Mary Renault

3.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

4.

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

Phaedrus

5.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

6.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

7.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

12.

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

Edmund Burke

13.

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

Carlin, George

14.

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

15.

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

Hesiod

16.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

18.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

22.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

25.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Cioran, E. M.

28.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

29.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

30.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

31.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

33.

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

Socrates

34.

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

Buddha

35.

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

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

39.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

40.

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

Simone Weil

41.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

42.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

43.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

44.

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

Bischer

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

Evil spelled backward is live.

49.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

50.

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

Mae West