Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Mae West

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

2.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

3.

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

Hesiod

4.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

7.

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

Homer

8.

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

Edmund Burke

9.

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

Proverb

10.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

King Edward the Third

12.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

13.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

14.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

15.

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

16.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

17.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

21.

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

22.

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

Hesiod

23.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

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.

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.

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

Bellow, Saul

28.

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.

29.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

31.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

36.

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

Mary Renault

37.

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

Hood, Thomas

38.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

39.

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

Plato

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

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

43.

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

Ayn Rand

44.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

45.

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

46.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

47.

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

Masters, Brian

48.

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

Simone Weil

49.

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