Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

3.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

4.

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

Hesiod

5.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

6.

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

7.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

8.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

9.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

10.

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

11.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

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

Simone Weil

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Bischer

16.

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

Auden, W. H.

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.

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

Hesiod

19.

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

20.

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

Homer

21.

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

Phaedrus

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

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

Horton, Doug

24.

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

25.

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

James, William

26.

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

Proverb

27.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

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.

29.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

30.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.

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

Ayn Rand

33.

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

Burroughs, William S.

34.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

35.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

36.

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

Proverb, American

37.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

38.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

39.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

40.

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

Edmund Burke

41.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

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

43.

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

Masters, Brian

44.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

45.

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

46.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

47.

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

Plato

48.

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

Evil spelled backward is live.