Motivational Quotes

Evil

The love of evil is the root of all money.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

2.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

3.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

4.

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

Hesiod

5.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

6.

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

Bible

7.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

8.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

9.

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

Cioran, E. M.

10.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

12.

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

13.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

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

Edmund Burke

16.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

17.

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

Ayn Rand

18.

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

Lerner, Max

19.

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

20.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

21.

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

Phaedrus

22.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

23.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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

27.

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

Horton, Doug

28.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

West, Mae

33.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

James, William

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Weber, C. J.

38.

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

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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