Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Hesiod

2.

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

Bellow, Saul

3.

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

Mary Renault

4.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

5.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

6.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

7.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

8.

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

9.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

11.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

12.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

13.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

14.

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

Weber, C. J.

15.

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.

16.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

17.

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

18.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

19.

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

Buddha

20.

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

Crowley, Aleister

21.

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

22.

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

Claudius

23.

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

24.

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

Bischer

25.

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

Lerner, Max

26.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

27.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Phaedrus

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Edmund Burke

32.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

33.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Ayn Rand

36.

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

James, William

37.

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

38.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

Eliot, George

41.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

42.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

43.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

44.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

45.

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

Hesiod

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

50.

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

Aristotle