Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Hesiod

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Bible

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

Simone Weil

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Mae West

10.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

12.

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

West, Mae

13.

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

Lerner, Max

14.

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

15.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

16.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

17.

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

Buddha

18.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

19.

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

20.

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

Crowley, Aleister

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

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

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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.

25.

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

Burroughs, William S.

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

30.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

31.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

32.

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

Bellow, Saul

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

36.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

39.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

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

Aristotle

42.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

43.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

44.

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

45.

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

Edmund Burke

46.

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

47.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

48.

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

Hesiod

49.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

50.

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