Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

West, Mae

2.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

3.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

4.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

9.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

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

Weber, C. J.

14.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

15.

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

Burroughs, William S.

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

18.

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

19.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

20.

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

Plato

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

23.

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

Claudius

24.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

25.

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

26.

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

Hood, Thomas

27.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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

29.

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

Masters, Brian

30.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

32.

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

Homer

33.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

34.

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

Blaise Pascal

35.

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

Ayn Rand

36.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

37.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

38.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

39.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

40.

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

Aristotle

41.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

42.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

43.

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

44.

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

Phaedrus

45.

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

Cioran, E. M.

46.

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

47.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

48.

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

Horton, Doug

49.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

50.

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.