Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Evil

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hesiod

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

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Proverb, American

10.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Carlin, George

12.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

13.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

14.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

Socrates

19.

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

Bellow, Saul

20.

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

Claudius

21.

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

Masters, Brian

22.

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

Mary Renault

23.

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

Blaise Pascal

24.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

25.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Phaedrus

29.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

32.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Aristotle

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

41.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

42.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

43.

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

Bischer

44.

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

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

James, William

49.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther