Motivational Quotes

Evil

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.

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb

3.

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

Hesiod

4.

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

Aristotle

5.

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

Claudius

6.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

7.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

8.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

9.

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

10.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

11.

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

Mary Renault

12.

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

13.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Burroughs, William S.

18.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

19.

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

20.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

21.

Evil spelled backward is live.

22.

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

Carlin, George

23.

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

Socrates

24.

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.

25.

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

Aristotle

26.

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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Hoffer, Eric

29.

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

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Hood, Thomas

32.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

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

Proverb, American

34.

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

35.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

36.

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

James, William

37.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

38.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

39.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

40.

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

Crowley, Aleister

41.

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

Weber, C. J.

42.

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

Phaedrus

43.

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

Ayn Rand

44.

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

Cioran, E. M.

45.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

46.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

47.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

48.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

49.

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

50.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson