Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Ayn Rand

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

2.

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

3.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

4.

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

Ayn Rand

5.

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

Burroughs, William S.

6.

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

Cioran, E. M.

7.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

8.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

9.

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.

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.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

12.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

16.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

20.

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

Blaise Pascal

21.

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

Hesiod

22.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

23.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

24.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

25.

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

West, Mae

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

28.

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

Buddha

29.

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

Plato

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

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

33.

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

Auden, W. H.

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Socrates

36.

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

Claudius

37.

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

Bible

38.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

40.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Maistre, Joseph De

41.

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

Homer

42.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

43.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

44.

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

45.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

46.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

47.

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

Proverb, American

48.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

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

Masters, Brian

50.

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