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

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Edmund Burke

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

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

Crowley, Aleister

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

West, Mae

10.

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

Auden, W. H.

11.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

12.

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

Claudius

13.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

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

15.

No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

16.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

17.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

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

Socrates

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

24.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

25.

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

Bible

26.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

27.

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

Carlin, George

28.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

29.

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

Hood, Thomas

30.

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

Plato

31.

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

Hesiod

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

Bischer

34.

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

Horton, Doug

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

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

41.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

42.

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Erasmus, Desiderius

43.

Evil spelled backward is live.

44.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

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

Mae West

46.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

47.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

48.

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

Voltaire

49.

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

50.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre