Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

King Edward the Third

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

Socrates

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ayn Rand

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

Auden, W. H.

10.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

11.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

12.

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

Claudius

13.

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

14.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

15.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

18.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

19.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

20.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

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

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

Blaise Pascal

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Hesiod

26.

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

27.

Evil spelled backward is live.

28.

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

Hoffer, Eric

29.

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

Proverb, American

30.

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

31.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

32.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

33.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

36.

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

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

Mary Renault

38.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

39.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

41.

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

Carlin, George

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

West, Mae

46.

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

Horton, Doug

47.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Maistre, Joseph De

48.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

49.

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

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

Baudelaire, Charles