Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

2.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

3.

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

4.

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

James, William

5.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

6.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

7.

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

Phaedrus

8.

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

9.

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

Blaise Pascal

10.

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

Socrates

11.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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.

13.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

14.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Hesiod

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

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

21.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

22.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

26.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

27.

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

Horton, Doug

28.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

29.

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

Burroughs, William S.

30.

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

31.

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

Bischer

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

34.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Hesiod

38.

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

Carlin, George

39.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

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

Crowley, Aleister

42.

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

Simone Weil

43.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

44.

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

Mary Renault

45.

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

46.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

47.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

48.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

49.

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

Hoffer, Eric

50.

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