Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Haydon, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Evil

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

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

Buddha

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Darwin, Charles R.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Simone Weil

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

10.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Carlin, George

14.

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

Hood, Thomas

15.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

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

17.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

18.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

19.

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

Bellow, Saul

20.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

Phaedrus

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

24.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

25.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

26.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

27.

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

Proverb, American

28.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

29.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

30.

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

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

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

Bischer

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

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

Hoffer, Eric

36.

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

37.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

38.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

40.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

King Edward the Third

44.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

45.

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

Blaise Pascal

46.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

47.

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

West, Mae

48.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

49.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Gandhi, Mahatma