Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

West, Mae

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

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

Horton, Doug

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

Evil spelled backward is live.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

17.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

19.

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

20.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

23.

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

Socrates

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

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

26.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

27.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

28.

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

Weber, C. J.

29.

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

Buddha

30.

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

Burroughs, William S.

31.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

32.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

33.

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

Proverb

34.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

36.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

37.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

38.

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

Edmund Burke

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Phaedrus

44.

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

Blaise Pascal

45.

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

Simone Weil

46.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

47.

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

Bellow, Saul

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 is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

50.

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

Maistre, Joseph De