Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

3.

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

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

6.

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

West, Mae

7.

Evil spelled backward is live.

8.

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

Cioran, E. M.

9.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

12.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

13.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

15.

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

16.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

17.

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

Burroughs, William S.

18.

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

19.

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

20.

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

Claudius

21.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

22.

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

23.

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

Hesiod

24.

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

25.

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

Bischer

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

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

Ayn Rand

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Phaedrus

34.

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

Edmund Burke

35.

The evil that we know is best.