Motivational Quotes

Evil

The end excuses any evil.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Masters, Brian

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Mary Renault

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Bellow, Saul

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Lerner, Max

13.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

14.

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

James, William

15.

Evil spelled backward is live.

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

19.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

20.

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

Proverb, American

21.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

24.

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

Bischer

25.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

27.

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

Weber, C. J.

28.

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

Socrates

29.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

32.

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

33.

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

Simone Weil

34.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

35.

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

Horton, Doug

36.

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

Burroughs, William S.

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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

38.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

King Edward the Third

44.

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

Hesiod

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

Aristotle

46.

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

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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

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They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buddha