Motivational Quotes

Evil

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Hesiod

2.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

3.

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

Lerner, Max

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

7.

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

8.

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

Blaise Pascal

9.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

10.

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

11.

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

Simone Weil

12.

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

Horton, Doug

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Auden, W. H.

18.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

Hesiod

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Edmund Burke

24.

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Theodore Roosevelt

26.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

27.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

29.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

32.

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

West, Mae

33.

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

Hood, Thomas

34.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

35.

Evil spelled backward is live.

36.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

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

Ayn Rand

43.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

44.

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