Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Burroughs, William S.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

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

Carlin, George

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

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Bellow, Saul

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

12.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

13.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

14.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

17.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

18.

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

Plato

19.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

Mae West

21.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

22.

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

Simone Weil

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Bischer

28.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

29.

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

Phaedrus

30.

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

Hesiod

31.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

32.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

33.

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

Bible

34.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

38.

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

39.

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

Horton, Doug

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.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

Auden, W. H.

43.

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

44.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

45.

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

Homer

46.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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