Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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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

2.

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

Hesiod

3.

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

Ayn Rand

4.

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

Bible

5.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

6.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Claudius

7.

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

Bischer

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

Blaise Pascal

9.

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.

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

12.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

13.

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

Socrates

14.

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

Burroughs, William S.

15.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

19.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

20.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

21.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

Evil spelled backward is live.

24.

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

Hesiod

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

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

Horton, Doug

29.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Masters, Brian

31.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

32.

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

Homer

33.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

34.

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

Mary Renault

35.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

36.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

39.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

40.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

41.

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

42.

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

Crowley, Aleister

43.

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

Hesiod

44.

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

45.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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.

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

48.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

50.

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.