Motivational Quotes

Evil

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Aristotle

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

5.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

9.

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

Buddha

10.

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

King Edward the Third

11.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

14.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

15.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

16.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

17.

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

18.

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

19.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

20.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

26.

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

27.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

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

Homer

30.

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

Lerner, Max

31.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

36.

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

37.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

38.

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.

39.

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

Eliot, George

40.

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

Claudius

41.

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

42.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

43.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

44.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

45.

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