Motivational Quotes

Evil

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Evil

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

Bible

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

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Jonson, Ben

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

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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

Proverb

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

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Thomas a Kempis

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

13.

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

Burroughs, William S.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

16.

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

Hesiod

17.

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

Simone Weil

18.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

19.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

20.

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

21.

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

Masters, Brian

22.

Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

23.

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

Theodore Roosevelt

24.

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

Claudius

25.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

27.

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

James, William

28.

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

Homer

29.

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

30.

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

Chapman, Maria Weston

31.

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.

32.

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

Phaedrus

33.

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

Buddha

34.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

35.

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

Baudelaire, Charles

36.

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

Hood, Thomas

37.

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

Bischer

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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.

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

Proverb, Ethiopian

42.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

43.

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

Aristotle

44.

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

45.

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

Edmund Burke

46.

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

Proverb, American

47.

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

Plato

48.

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

49.

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

King Edward the Third

50.

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.