Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Burroughs, William S.

2.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

3.

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

Bellow, Saul

4.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Weber, C. J.

7.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

8.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

9.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

10.

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

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.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

18.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

19.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

20.

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

Plato

21.

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

Cioran, E. M.

22.

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

23.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

24.

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

25.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

James, William

27.

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

Edmund Burke

28.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

29.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

30.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

34.

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

Crowley, Aleister

35.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

36.

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

37.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

38.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

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

40.

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

Socrates

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

43.

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

Aristotle

44.

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

Hesiod

45.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

46.

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

Horton, Doug

47.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

48.

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

49.

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

Homer

50.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary