Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

2.

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

3.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

4.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

5.

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

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

Mae West

8.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

9.

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

Burroughs, William S.

10.

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

11.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

12.

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

Ayn Rand

13.

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

14.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Hesiod

16.

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

Crowley, Aleister

17.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

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

James, William

19.

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

Socrates

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

23.

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

24.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

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.

26.

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

Carlin, George

27.

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

Lerner, Max

28.

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

29.

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

Edmund Burke

30.

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

Cioran, E. M.

31.

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

Claudius

32.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

33.

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

Weber, C. J.

34.

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

Proverb, American

35.

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

36.

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

Hood, Thomas

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Hesiod

39.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

40.

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

Simone Weil

41.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

45.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

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

Blaise Pascal

47.

The evil that we know is best.