Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Mary Renault

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

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

Simone Weil

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

Plato

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Burroughs, William S.

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

Aristotle

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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

10.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

15.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

16.

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

Socrates

17.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

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

20.

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

Crowley, Aleister

21.

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

Blaise Pascal

22.

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

23.

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.

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

Auden, W. H.

25.

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

West, Mae

26.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

28.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

29.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

30.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

31.

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

King Edward the Third

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

34.

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

Mae West

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

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

Weber, C. J.

37.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

38.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

39.

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

Claudius

40.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

44.

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

Hesiod

45.

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