Motivational Quotes

Evil

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.

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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.

2.

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

Masters, Brian

3.

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

King Edward the Third

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

8.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

10.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

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

Cioran, E. M.

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

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

14.

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

Blaise Pascal

15.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

16.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

17.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

23.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

24.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

26.

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

Aristotle

27.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Claudius

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

32.

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

Auden, W. H.

33.

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

Socrates

34.

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

Proverb, American

35.

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

36.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

37.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

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.

39.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

West, Mae

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

Plato

44.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

45.

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

Hesiod

46.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

47.

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

48.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

49.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Hesiod