Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Homer

2.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

3.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

4.

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

Proverb, American

5.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

6.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

7.

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

8.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

9.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

10.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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

Hood, Thomas

14.

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

Lerner, Max

15.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

16.

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.

17.

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

Bellow, Saul

18.

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

Proverb

19.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

20.

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

21.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

24.

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

Mary Renault

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

27.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

33.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

34.

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

Simone Weil

35.

Evil spelled backward is live.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

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

Plato

41.

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

42.

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

King Edward the Third

43.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

44.

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

Claudius

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Ayn Rand

47.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

49.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

50.

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