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

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

Mae West

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

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

Phaedrus

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

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.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Hood, Thomas

10.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

14.

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

15.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

16.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

17.

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

Bible

18.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

19.

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

Hesiod

20.

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

Lerner, Max

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Carlin, George

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Horton, Doug

29.

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

30.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

31.

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

32.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

33.

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

Mary Renault

34.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

Bischer

37.

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.

38.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

39.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

40.

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

Blaise Pascal

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

King Edward the Third

44.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

45.

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

46.

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

Auden, W. H.

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Burroughs, William S.

49.

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