Motivational Quotes

Evil

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Proverb, American

2.

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

3.

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

Bellow, Saul

4.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

5.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

6.

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

7.

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

James, William

8.

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

9.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

Phaedrus

11.

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

12.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

14.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

16.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

17.

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

18.

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

Mae West

19.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

20.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

22.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

23.

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

Plato

24.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

25.

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

Lerner, Max

26.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

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

Claudius

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

King Edward the Third

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Mary Renault

35.

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

36.

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

Cioran, E. M.

37.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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

Buddha

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

43.

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

Blaise Pascal

44.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

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

West, Mae

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

50.

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

Baudelaire, Charles