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

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

Ayn Rand

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

West, Mae

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

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

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

10.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

12.

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

Blaise Pascal

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Mary Renault

15.

Evil spelled backward is live.

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

18.

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

Bible

19.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

20.

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

21.

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

Hesiod

22.

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

23.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

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

25.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

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

Carlin, George

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

31.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

32.

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

Eliot, George

33.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

34.

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

35.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

36.

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

Proverb, American

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

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

41.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

43.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

44.

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

Phaedrus

45.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

46.

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

Bischer

47.

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

48.

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

Homer

49.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

50.

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

Darwin, Charles R.