Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

2.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

3.

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.

4.

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

Hesiod

5.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

6.

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

7.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

8.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

9.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Weber, C. J.

12.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

17.

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

18.

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

King Edward the Third

19.

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

Cioran, E. M.

20.

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

Masters, Brian

21.

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

Ayn Rand

22.

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

23.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

24.

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

Auden, W. H.

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

27.

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

Hood, Thomas

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, American

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.

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

33.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

34.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

35.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Buddha

36.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

37.

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

Bischer

38.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

39.

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

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

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

Plato

42.

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

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Mae West

45.

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

46.

Evil spelled backward is live.

47.

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

48.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

49.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

50.

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

Carlin, George