Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

2.

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

Horton, Doug

3.

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

James, William

4.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

5.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

6.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

7.

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

Crowley, Aleister

8.

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

9.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

10.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

17.

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

18.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

19.

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

Simone Weil

20.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

21.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

22.

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

Proverb, American

23.

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

King Edward the Third

24.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Blaise Pascal

27.

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

Hesiod

28.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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 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

31.

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

32.

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

Hesiod

33.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

34.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

35.

Evil spelled backward is live.

36.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

38.

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.

39.

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

Eliot, George

40.

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

Mae West

41.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

42.

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