Motivational Quotes

Evil

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.

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Eliot, George

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

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

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Mae West

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

10.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Edmund Burke

13.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

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

16.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

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

19.

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

Hesiod

20.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

21.

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

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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

Burroughs, William S.

24.

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

King Edward the Third

25.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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

Hood, Thomas

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

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

30.

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

Bischer

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

33.

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

James, William

34.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Crowley, Aleister

36.

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

Socrates

37.

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

38.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

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

Buddha

40.

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.

41.

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

Aristotle

42.

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

Horton, Doug

43.

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

West, Mae

44.

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

Weber, C. J.

45.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

46.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

47.

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

Blaise Pascal

48.

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

49.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

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

Lerner, Max