Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Lerner, Max

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Mary Renault

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Voltaire

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

Hesiod

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Aristotle

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Edmund Burke

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

Cioran, E. M.

12.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

13.

Evil spelled backward is live.

14.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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.

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Burroughs, William S.

21.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Hoffer, Eric

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

West, Mae

29.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

30.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

31.

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

32.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

33.

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

Lerner, Max

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

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

Buddha

36.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

39.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

40.

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

41.

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

Auden, W. H.

42.

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

43.

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

Hood, Thomas

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Bischer

47.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

48.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

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

50.

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

Simone Weil