Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

West, Mae

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

Simone Weil

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Bible

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

Hesiod

12.

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

Blaise Pascal

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

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

15.

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

Burroughs, William S.

16.

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

Horton, Doug

17.

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

18.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

19.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

20.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

21.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

22.

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

Eliot, George

23.

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

24.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

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

Plato

26.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

27.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

28.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

29.

Evil spelled backward is live.

30.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

31.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

Buddha

33.

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

Masters, Brian

34.

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

Claudius

35.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

36.

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

Hesiod

37.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

38.

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

39.

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

Crowley, Aleister

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Weber, C. J.

46.

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

Hesiod

47.

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

James, William

48.

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

Homer

49.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

50.

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