Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Claudius

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

Bellow, Saul

3.

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

Claudius

4.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

5.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

6.

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

Carlin, George

7.

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

8.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

9.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

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

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

15.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

17.

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.

18.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

19.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

Simone Weil

21.

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

Aristotle

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

27.

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

Ayn Rand

28.

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

Blaise Pascal

29.

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

30.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

35.

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

Crowley, Aleister

36.

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

Cioran, E. M.

37.

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

38.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

39.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

40.

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

Bischer

41.

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