Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

2.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

3.

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

4.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

5.

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

Edmund Burke

6.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

7.

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

8.

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

Ayn Rand

9.

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

Carlin, George

10.

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

11.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

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

Cioran, E. M.

15.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

West, Mae

19.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

20.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

21.

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

Blaise Pascal

22.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

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

Bischer

24.

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

Hesiod

25.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Hesiod

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

Homer

32.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

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

Socrates

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

36.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

41.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

42.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]