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 is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

2.

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

King Edward the Third

3.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

4.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

5.

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.

6.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

7.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

9.

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

Masters, Brian

10.

Evil spelled backward is live.

11.

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

Proverb

12.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

13.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

14.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

16.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

17.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

18.

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

Bible

19.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

20.

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

Bellow, Saul

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Plato

24.

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

Crowley, Aleister

25.

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

26.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

27.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

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

Simone Weil

30.

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

31.

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

Cioran, E. M.

32.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

33.

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

Mae West

34.

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

Auden, W. H.

35.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

36.

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

West, Mae

37.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Claudius

38.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

39.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

40.

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

Hesiod

41.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

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

43.

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

Blaise Pascal

44.

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

Aristotle

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Hesiod

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

50.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon