Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Evil

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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

Bischer

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Proverb, American

10.

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Hood, Thomas

13.

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

Weber, C. J.

14.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

15.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

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

Hesiod

17.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

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

19.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

20.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

21.

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

22.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

23.

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

Burroughs, William S.

24.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

25.

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

26.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

27.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

Bible

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.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

34.

Evil spelled backward is live.

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

38.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

39.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

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

Blaise Pascal

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

45.

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

Homer

46.

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

Edmund Burke

47.

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

James, William

48.

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

Hesiod

49.

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

Crowley, Aleister

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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