Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Bible

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

Mae West

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

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

King Edward the Third

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Mary Renault

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

Proverb

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

Haydon, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

12.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

13.

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

Plato

14.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

15.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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

18.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

19.

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

West, Mae

20.

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

Cioran, E. M.

21.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

24.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Simone Weil

28.

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

Aristotle

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

32.

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

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

35.

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

Bellow, Saul

36.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

37.

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

Masters, Brian

38.

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

Weber, C. J.

39.

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

40.

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

Carlin, George

41.

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

Burroughs, William S.

42.

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

Auden, W. H.

43.

Evil spelled backward is live.

44.

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

45.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

46.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Phaedrus

50.

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

James, William