Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

4.

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

5.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

6.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

7.

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

Mary Renault

8.

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

9.

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

Plato

10.

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

Bischer

11.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

12.

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

Socrates

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

15.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

16.

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

17.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

18.

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

Aristotle

19.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

20.

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.

21.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

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

Hood, Thomas

23.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

24.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

25.

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

Masters, Brian

26.

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

Proverb

27.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

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

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.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

32.

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

Buddha

33.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

35.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Leigh Hunt

36.

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

37.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

38.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Aristotle

43.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

44.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

45.

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

Homer

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.

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

Phaedrus

48.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

49.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

50.

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