Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

2.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

3.

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

4.

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

Burroughs, William S.

5.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

6.

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

Hood, Thomas

7.

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

8.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

Cioran, E. M.

13.

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

Bellow, Saul

14.

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

15.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

22.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

23.

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

24.

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

Horton, Doug

25.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

27.

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

28.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Donne, John

29.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

30.

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

Haydon, Benjamin

31.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

Socrates

33.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

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

35.

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

King Edward the Third

36.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

38.

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

Simone Weil

39.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

41.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

46.

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

Masters, Brian

47.

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

Carlin, George

48.

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.

49.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Hoffer, Eric

50.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall