Motivational Quotes

Evil

Of two evils, choose neither.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2.

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

3.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

4.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

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.

9.

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

Aristotle

10.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

11.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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

14.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

15.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

16.

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

Claudius

17.

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

West, Mae

18.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

19.

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

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.

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

Plato

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

24.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

25.

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

Burroughs, William S.

26.

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

Hesiod

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

30.

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

31.

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

Blaise Pascal

32.

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

Edmund Burke

33.

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

Eliot, George

34.

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

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

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

King Edward the Third

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Cioran, E. M.

42.

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

Phaedrus

43.

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

Bischer

44.

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

Lerner, Max

45.

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

46.

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

Masters, Brian

47.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

50.

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.