Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

2.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

3.

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

Plato

4.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Edmund Burke

10.

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

Buddha

11.

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

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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

Cioran, E. M.

14.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

15.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

16.

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

James, William

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Mary Renault

19.

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

Horton, Doug

20.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

21.

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

Hood, Thomas

22.

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

Lerner, Max

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.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

25.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

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

27.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

29.

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

30.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

33.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

34.

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

Hesiod

35.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Ayn Rand

39.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

Simone Weil

41.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

42.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

43.

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

Bellow, Saul

44.

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

Proverb, American

45.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

46.

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

47.

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

48.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

49.

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

Mae West

50.

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

King Edward the Third