Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Best Quotes about Evil

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

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

Weber, C. J.

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

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

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

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

Eliot, George

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

King Edward the Third

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

12.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

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

Aristotle

15.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

16.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

17.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

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

Burroughs, William S.

19.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Auden, W. H.

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Edmund Burke

26.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

27.

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

28.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

Mae West

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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.

36.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

39.

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

Lerner, Max

40.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

41.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

42.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

43.

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

Horton, Doug

44.

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

Simone Weil

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Homer

48.

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

Claudius

49.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

50.

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