Motivational Quotes

Evil

There is no bad in good.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Hood, Thomas

4.

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

5.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

6.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

7.

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

Burroughs, William S.

8.

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

Plato

9.

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

Simone Weil

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

12.

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

Mae West

13.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

14.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

15.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

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.

19.

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

Masters, Brian

20.

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

Hesiod

21.

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

Homer

22.

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.

23.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

24.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

25.

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

Hesiod

26.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

30.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

34.

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

35.

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

Ayn Rand

36.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

37.

Evil spelled backward is live.

38.

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

Phaedrus

39.

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.

40.

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

Cioran, E. M.

41.

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

Claudius

42.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

43.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

44.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

45.

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

Lerner, Max

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

49.

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

Crowley, Aleister

50.

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

Buddha