Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Lerner, Max

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

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Horton, Doug

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

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

James, William

12.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

13.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

14.

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

Simone Weil

15.

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

Socrates

16.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

17.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

20.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Maistre, Joseph De

22.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

30.

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

31.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

32.

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

Bellow, Saul

33.

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

Eliot, George

34.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

35.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

36.

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

37.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

38.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

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

Aristotle

40.

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

West, Mae

41.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

42.

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

43.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

44.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

45.

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

46.

Evil spelled backward is live.

47.

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

Hesiod

48.

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

49.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Oliver Goldsmith

50.

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

Claudius