Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- King Edward the Third

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

2.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

3.

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

Crowley, Aleister

4.

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

Socrates

5.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

6.

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

7.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

8.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

9.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

10.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

11.

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

Phaedrus

12.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

13.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

14.

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.

15.

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

Auden, W. H.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Hesiod

19.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Hood, Thomas

23.

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

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Homer

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.

Evil spelled backward is live.

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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

Burroughs, William S.

34.

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

35.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

36.

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

Plato

37.

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

39.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

40.

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

Horton, Doug

41.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

42.

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

Lerner, Max

43.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

44.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

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

46.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Aristotle

50.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.