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.

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

Horton, Doug

2.

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

James, William

3.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

4.

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

King Edward the Third

5.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

6.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

7.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

8.

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

Proverb, American

9.

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

Edmund Burke

10.

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

Lerner, Max

11.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

12.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

14.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

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

16.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

17.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

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

Ayn Rand

19.

Evil spelled backward is live.

20.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

21.

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

Masters, Brian

22.

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

Cioran, E. M.

23.

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

Bellow, Saul

24.

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

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

27.

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

28.

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

West, Mae

29.

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

Mae West

30.

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

31.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

32.

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

Hood, Thomas

33.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

34.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

35.

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

Eliot, George

36.

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.

37.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

38.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

40.

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

41.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

42.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

44.

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

45.

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

46.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

Buddha

49.

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

50.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther