Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hood, Thomas

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Buddha

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lerner, Max

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Claudius

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

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

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

Mary Renault

12.

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

13.

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

West, Mae

14.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

15.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

16.

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

Mae West

17.

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

18.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

19.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

20.

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

James, William

21.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

22.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

23.

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

Phaedrus

24.

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.

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

29.

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

Hesiod

30.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

31.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

32.

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

Edmund Burke

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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.

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Bellow, Saul

38.

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

Aristotle

39.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

40.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Auden, W. H.

44.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

45.

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

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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

Horton, Doug

47.

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

Masters, Brian

48.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

49.

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

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

Eliot, George

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