Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

2.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

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

4.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

5.

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

6.

Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.

Sade, Marquis De

7.

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

Weber, C. J.

8.

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

Simone Weil

9.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

10.

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

West, Mae

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

Cioran, E. M.

13.

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

Proverb, American

14.

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

King Edward the Third

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.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

17.

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

18.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

21.

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

Homer

22.

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

Phaedrus

23.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

26.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

27.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

28.

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

29.

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

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Claudius

32.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

39.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

40.

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

Hesiod

41.

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

42.

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