Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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.

2.

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

Phaedrus

3.

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.

4.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

5.

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

6.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

7.

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

Plato

8.

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

9.

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

Mae West

10.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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.

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

Lerner, Max

13.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

15.

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

Bischer

16.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

King Edward the Third

19.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

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

Bible

21.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

22.

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

Mary Renault

23.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

24.

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

Blaise Pascal

25.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, American

29.

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

James, William

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

32.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

33.

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

Crowley, Aleister

34.

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

35.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

36.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

37.

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

Weber, C. J.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

41.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

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

Hesiod

43.

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

Hesiod

44.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

45.

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

Simone Weil

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

50.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug