Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

3.

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

Blaise Pascal

4.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

5.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

6.

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

7.

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

Weber, C. J.

8.

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

9.

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

Bischer

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

James, William

12.

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

13.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

14.

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.

15.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

16.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

17.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

18.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

19.

Evil spelled backward is live.

20.

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

West, Mae

21.

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

Crowley, Aleister

22.

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

King Edward the Third

23.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Buddha

26.

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

Carlin, George

27.

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

Hoffer, Eric

28.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

29.

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

30.

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

Hesiod

31.

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

32.

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

Bellow, Saul

33.

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

Auden, W. H.

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Cioran, E. M.

36.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

37.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

38.

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

Bible

39.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

40.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

43.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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

45.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

46.

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

Phaedrus

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb

50.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible