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.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

2.

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.

3.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

4.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

5.

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

Bellow, Saul

6.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

7.

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

King Edward the Third

8.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

9.

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

Ayn Rand

17.

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

18.

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

19.

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

Plato

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

23.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

24.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

25.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

26.

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

Weber, C. J.

27.

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

Bischer

28.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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.

30.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

31.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

32.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

33.

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

Blaise Pascal

34.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

35.

Evil spelled backward is live.

36.

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

37.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

38.

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

39.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

40.

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

Burroughs, William S.

41.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

42.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

43.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

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

Masters, Brian

45.

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

46.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

47.

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

Aristotle

48.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

49.

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

50.

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

Baudelaire, Charles