Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Bellow, Saul

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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

Proverb, American

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Ayn Rand

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

13.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

14.

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

Socrates

15.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

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

Hesiod

17.

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

Blaise Pascal

18.

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

Plato

19.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

20.

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

Homer

21.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

22.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Aristotle

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Hood, Thomas

26.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

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.

28.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Mae West

34.

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

Cioran, E. M.

35.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

36.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

37.

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

King Edward the Third

38.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

39.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

44.

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

Crowley, Aleister

45.

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.

46.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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