Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

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Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

2.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

3.

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

King Edward the Third

4.

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.

5.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

6.

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

James, William

7.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

8.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

9.

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

Socrates

10.

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

Crowley, Aleister

11.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

12.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

13.

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

14.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

16.

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

17.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

18.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

19.

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

Hesiod

20.

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

21.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

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

23.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

25.

Evil spelled backward is live.

26.

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

27.

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

Bischer

28.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

29.

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

30.

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

Homer

31.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Darwin, Charles R.

32.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Bible

35.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

36.

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

37.

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

Blaise Pascal

38.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

39.

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

40.

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

Lerner, Max

41.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

42.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

43.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Ayn Rand

44.

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

Carlin, George

45.

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

Aristotle

46.

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.

47.

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

Claudius

48.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

50.

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