Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Evil

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

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

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, American

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

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.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Edmund Burke

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

West, Mae

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

Claudius

11.

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

12.

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

Carlin, George

13.

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

Phaedrus

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

19.

Evil spelled backward is live.

20.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

21.

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

22.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

23.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

24.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

26.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

28.

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

Homer

29.

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

30.

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

Blaise Pascal

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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

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

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

Buddha

36.

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

Bible

37.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

38.

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

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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

40.

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

Hesiod

41.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

43.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

44.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

45.

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.

46.

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

Masters, Brian

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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

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Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

49.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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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