Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

Simone Weil

3.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

4.

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

5.

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

Ayn Rand

6.

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

7.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

8.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

9.

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

Aristotle

10.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Mary Renault

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

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

17.

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

Hesiod

18.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

19.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

20.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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

24.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

Socrates

27.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

28.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

30.

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

31.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

32.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

33.

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

Bischer

34.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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.

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

37.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.

Masters, Brian

38.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

39.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

40.

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

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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

Horton, Doug

43.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

44.

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

Bible

45.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

46.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

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

Claudius

48.

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.

49.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

50.

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

Proverb