Motivational Quotes

Evil

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

2.

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

Homer

3.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

4.

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

5.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Hesiod

6.

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

James, William

7.

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

8.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

9.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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

Buddha

17.

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

18.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

19.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

20.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

21.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

22.

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

23.

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

Crowley, Aleister

24.

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

West, Mae

25.

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

Ayn Rand

26.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

28.

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

29.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

32.

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

Hood, Thomas

33.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

34.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

35.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

36.

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

Hesiod

37.

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

38.

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

39.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

40.

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.

41.

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

Socrates

42.

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

Plato

43.

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

Burroughs, William S.

44.

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