Motivational Quotes

Evil

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

- Thomas a Kempis

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Aristotle

2.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

3.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

4.

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

Phaedrus

5.

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

6.

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

Crowley, Aleister

7.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

8.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

9.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

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

Ayn Rand

11.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

13.

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

Horton, Doug

14.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

16.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

17.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

20.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

21.

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

Hoffer, Eric

22.

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.

23.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

24.

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

25.

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

King Edward the Third

26.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

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

Eliot, George

28.

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

29.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

31.

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

32.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

33.

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

Masters, Brian

34.

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

Burroughs, William S.

35.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

37.

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

38.

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

Plato

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

41.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

42.

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

Auden, W. H.

43.

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

Homer

44.

Evil spelled backward is live.

45.

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

46.

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

Cioran, E. M.

47.

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

48.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

49.

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