Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Plato

2.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

3.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

4.

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

Weber, C. J.

5.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

6.

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

Hesiod

7.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

8.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

9.

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

10.

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

Hesiod

11.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

13.

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

Homer

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

17.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

20.

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

Simone Weil

21.

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

Bischer

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

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

Hood, Thomas

24.

Evil spelled backward is live.

25.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

26.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

King Edward the Third

29.

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

Phaedrus

30.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

31.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Aristotle

34.

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

Hesiod

35.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

36.

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

Mae West

37.

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

Masters, Brian

38.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

41.

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

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.

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

Edmund Burke

44.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

45.

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

46.

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