Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Eliot, George

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Aristotle

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Simone Weil

10.

There is no bad in good.

Horton, Doug

11.

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

12.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

14.

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

Edmund Burke

15.

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

16.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

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

20.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Bellow, Saul

23.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

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.

25.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

26.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

27.

Evil brings men together.

Aristotle

28.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

29.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

30.

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

31.

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

Weber, C. J.

32.

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

33.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Phaedrus

34.

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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

35.

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

Bible

36.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

37.

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

James, William

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

Auden, W. H.

42.

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

West, Mae

43.

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

Hesiod

44.

Evil spelled backward is live.

45.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, American

48.

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

King Edward the Third

49.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

50.

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