Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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

Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

Berger, John

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

Proverb, American

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

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

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

Auden, W. H.

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Edmund Burke

12.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

13.

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

14.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

15.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

16.

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

Simone Weil

17.

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

Weber, C. J.

18.

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

19.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

Aristotle

21.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

22.

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

Homer

23.

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

24.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

25.

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.

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

28.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

29.

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

Claudius

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

Socrates

32.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

33.

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

34.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

Ayn Rand

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

39.

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

King Edward the Third

40.

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

Hesiod

41.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

42.

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

Mary Renault

43.

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

44.

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

Eliot, George

45.

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

Blaise Pascal

46.

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

Masters, Brian

47.

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

Hesiod

48.

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

49.

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

Carlin, George

50.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West