Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Mae West

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

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

Hesiod

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

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

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

Mary Renault

10.

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

11.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

12.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

13.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

14.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Claudius

17.

Evil spelled backward is live.

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, American

20.

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

Phaedrus

21.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

22.

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.

23.

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

Bischer

24.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

26.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

Blaise Pascal

28.

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

Crowley, Aleister

29.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

30.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

31.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

32.

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

33.

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

Hood, Thomas

34.

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

Edmund Burke

35.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

36.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

37.

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

38.

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

Eliot, George

39.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

40.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

41.

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

42.

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

Masters, Brian

43.

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

Simone Weil

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

47.

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

Aristotle

48.

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

King Edward the Third

49.

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

50.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis